I'm not huge on Panetta making these comments. Doesn't seem like there's a huge need for them, plus we need Pakistan to stay (at least somewhat) cooperative.  View

Given the dearth of toilet paper, tampons and clean drinking water, I can't blame the guy for delaying his return. Nothing against Pakistan but with those Mountains it's probably difficult to get good reception on Direct TV. And with the Superbowl coming up, the NBA in full swing, March Madness in just a few weeks. . . A delay is in order.  View

Look, long story short. Afghanistan has nothing to do with 911 neither does iraq. The taliban are a group that emerged after we went there. They just defend their people from foreign countries. 90% of the people in afghanistan support the taliban. Osama bin ladin worked for the CIA and went rougue or something. He fled to pakistan and didnt think the U.S would follow but we did. We went there and then 911 happend. The al Qauida group are the actual terrorist not the taliban. These men here are taliban not al qauida. You also cant do something disrespectful or rougue just because your in a war. Comparing 3000 of our civilians and over 5000 troops against over a million babies, children, women, and men just in afghanistan is stupidity. We cant make ourselves more valuable than another person just because they live in a different country. Thats immoral and I dont support either side. Like i said research it, then you can talk because you make yourself look st*pid when you do.  View

Ohh yeah Taliban can be trusted , ill be laughing My @ss off when Taliban gets Pakistan to have a big party to host the "peace celebrations" as I am quite certain Taliban will end up killing Pakistani people as soon as they get the publicity they want . Never make friends with a land mine .  View

And we care about Pakistan because ???.... Lets let India invade and conquer Pakistan  View

True, very true, but osama bin ladin belong to the al qauida terrorist group. The taliban have nothing to to with the 911 attacks. So why are we fighting them. Plus all the terrorist come from pakistan thats why osama was killed there. He was there the whole time. By the way the taliban are not terrorist. They Are just protecting their people in afghanistan. What would you do if russia came to the u.s and said we were terrorist because they were attacked by mexican terrorist? This country is keeing secrets. Iraq and afghanistan are inocent counries.  View

Don't know nor will I ever if they are CIA. I do have an idea for their next hike. Either the boarder between North Korea and China or Afghanistan and Pakistan. Heck we can bail them out again can't we?  View

What does the Tea Party have to do with this? Once these guys are release I understand they are going to hike the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan and see how the Taliban will treat them.  View

Maybe it will become a dead storm, and so we pray intensely, but as a resident of Florida, my fear and awareness is never ending. My point is ALL about global warming: It's only going to become a far more severe problem as not just the years go by, but if you've been mathematically, in a rough way of course, the correlation between all of these horrifying weather related incidents from Katrina to the unbelievable and devastating EarthquakeTsunami that then triggered the unthinkable: A calamitous nuclear meltdown at the supposedly worlds most safest nuclear energy country, Japan, and then I say: Open Your eyes. For the REAL cause of our giobal near recession, if not depression(IS), is the massive onslaught of global warming caused disasters. My God! Now. Entire Towns, Entire Cities, almost truly surreal, Entire countries like Pakistan and Haiti(Which has still yet to recover!!!), are literally storming at ALL of us with a rapid ongoing fury, that I am shouting at the top of this persons lungs; If we do not get off oil, coal and nuclear energies in favor of safe renewables like especially solar (The technology is there, but our record setting power companies know the real ugly truth: Profits from solar would only command mere pennies to the dollar, while oil coal and nuclear command even (Subsidized) twice and thrice the dollars to a dollar! We must democratically alert ALL of our elected Reps: Make millions of JOBS and create a whole new infrastructure surrounding Solar Energy: Our lives now depend on it, Really.  View

Wasn't it pilot error that caused the helicopter to crash? I thought I read the crash was caused by the tail rotor hitting the walls of the compound. As for Pakistan allowing china to look at the wreckage, maybe we should stop all aid to that sand hole in the desert.  View