Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Why no one can have anything good anymore
Because when someone tries to improve things, some son of a bitch comes along and blows it up. From McClatchy:
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called off plans for unconditional peace talks with militant insurgents after a series of deadly terrorist attacks that culminated in Sunday’s suicide bombing of a church, which killed 83 people.Some people just insist on My Way Or Death.
“We had proposed peace talks with the Taliban in good faith but . . . because of this attack, the government is unable to move forward with what it planned and envisaged,” a visibly upset Sharif said late Sunday on a flight to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
Peace talks with militants from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, the formal name for the Pakistani Taliban, were a key part of Sharif’s platform in the campaign ahead of May’s parliamentary elections, which his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party won. The Taliban seemed to favor his proposal, excluding from their pre-election terror campaign candidates from Sharif’s party and another party that had favored peace talks, the Movement for Justice Party.
But since Sharif won approval for the talks in September from leaders of the country’s political parties, the Taliban have stepped up attacks, apparently seeing the idea of talks as a sign of weakness within Sharif’s government and of division with Pakistan’s powerful military, which opposed negotiations from the beginning.
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