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Insurgency
Apr 10 2009, Incognito

The worst thing Pakistan could have done was give in to the Taliban in Swat. Thinking they would be happy with that region of Pakistan was monumental folly. You can’t trust a group of religious fanatics intent on spreading their fundamentalism...

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