Bill Moyers had on two guys who live in Pakastan.

The main gist of all their information was as follows, in my own
words. imho

.....The Taliban is not about to take over Pakastan any forseable
future.....It is more like a policing action for Pakastan, who is
under severe pressures from many countries, to show that they are
actively fighting the Taliban within their borders.

There seems to be a unsubstantiated fear being put out that Pakastan
is under a severe threat by the Taliban. They are not.

Much of Pakastan is actually pro-western and wants the stuff the
amercans have.

They have rising middle class and watch India Hollywood-style movies
and aspire to the standard of living lifestyles shown there.

The recent rise of violence in northern west provinces border
Afghanistan, between Pakastan Army and Taliban, was given the analogy
of the Indian reservations of N.A.. Not a threat to the overall
integrity of the U.S. even if they went balistic.

Pakastans army is much larger, and in no way could loose, even tho
suicide bombers do terrorise any population, they don't long ways
from having majority support of the Pakastan people.

This kinda of unchanging culture, in that area, is stuff has been
going on there for countless hundreds, if not thousands of years.

They are relatively small set of fundamentalist and are not really
even Al Queda.

Sorry I can't remember the names of these two dudes. Very
interesting to hear their viewpoints tho.

Obama asked congress to pass bull to give the Pakastani people --non-
military-- 1.5 billion a year for some years.

These dudes agreed that that is smart move, even tho and they
repeated, the Pakastani majority is with the Americans, and don't
need convincing that Taliban is not they way they want to live.

These educated middle class Pakastani women do *not* want a Taliban
culture.

Rybo