Hot Pursuit Into Pakistan?

IBD Editorials ^ | July 11, 2008

[Kaslin]

War On Terror: As Washington moves an aircraft carrier off Pakistan's coast, U.S. commandos are reportedly poised to launch raids against terror targets inside Pakistan. It's about time.

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It appears hawks within the Pentagon and CIA have won a long-running policy battle with risk-averse officials in the administration and diplomats at the State Department. The result is a more aggressive, go-it-alone policy in response to Pakistan's failure to disrupt terrorist training camps and cross-border attacks against our troops and the Afghan government.

Politics and diplomacy had not produced the desired results, and they've had ample opportunity to work. For nearly seven years now — as we've coaxed, cajoled and even bribed our "ally" with billions in aid — Osama bin Laden and his henchmen have remained hidden inside Pakistan's tribal areas. Patience with Islamabad has run out. It's time for unilateral military action.

The U.S. military confirms it is sending extra air power to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border by moving the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman. The battle group ostensibly will provide air support for special forces who reportedly have been given the green light — after tumultuous debate within the White House — to conduct raids deep inside Pakistan's tribal belt to eradicate al-Qaida and Taliban bases.

According to a Houston Chronicle report, quoting both Democrat and Republican lawmakers who recently received a briefing from U.S. commanders in the region, the White House has authorized a secret plan to deploy commandos into Pakistan's tribal areas.

[USNBandit]

Hot pursuit into Pakistan should mean

"Hey, my platoon took some fire from Taliban that ran across the border and we are in hot pursuit, with the rest of the division as backup."

[dogger]

The move of the Abe Lincoln also provides for a much more substaqnial threat to Iranian nuclear facilities from the east.

Looks like this serves a dual purpose.

As for unilateral action in the tribal areas, all I can say is “’bout time!”

[SevenMinusOne]

The hunters and shooters have won out.......finally...

[jwparkerjr]

re: White House has authorized a secret plan

Well, so much for that ‘secret’.

[ASA Vet]

Thanks DevSix, I think this be ping worthy.

[airborne]

Bush is hoping to nab Bin Laden before leaving office?

[Parley Baer]

“won a long-running policy battle with risk-averse officials in the administration and diplomats at the State Department”

Ah the State Department is at it again. We could get by quite nicely with about 1/4 of the State Department.

[LouD]

moving the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman. The battle group ostensibly will provide air support for special forces who reportedly have been given the green light — after tumultuous debate within the White House — to conduct raids deep inside Pakistan's tribal belt to eradicate al-Qaida and Taliban bases.

Well, that's one reason for putting a carrier in the Gulf of Oman. Here's another:

[eeriegeno]

Hot pursuit into Pakistan should mean

Hot pursuit in Paki should mean that you either turn over Osamma bi Laden or your country will suddenly be at a temperature that exceeds one million degrees. Enough of this bullshit with these rag heads......

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need to get a lot of the carrier groups out of that shooting gallery....

[blam]

"We need to get a lot of the carrier groups out of that shooting gallery...."

That whole area was completely dry during the Ice Age.

[G8 Diplomat]

Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م

FReepmail if you want on or off

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We need more Global warming to melt the icecaps so that funny strai gets covered by a good amount of ater....and those Iranian Islands need some water...over them.

[AliVeritas]

Thanks Kas.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Now, this is a legacy worth pursuing.

[Chgogal]

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[PhilDragoo]

According to Richard Miniter in Losing bin Laden we had bin Laden in the sights of a Hellfire-armed Predator in 2000 and didn't have the nerve to take the shot.

We know a President Hussein would want to chat with bin Laden (visited Karachi for three weeks in 81 with the Chandoo brothers midst Zia's "Kalashnikov Culture").

If we can get Osama's head in a jar, that would be best.

A pink mist is fine.

A general cloud of debris stretching for a thousand kilometers in the stratosphere is also good.

One thing, do not take any JAGs, nor imbedded reporters, and if Murtha smears or Rockefeller leaks, it's the Yuri I. Nosenko Suite for the duration.

Good hunting.

[MeekOneGOP]

Let's Roll !!!

[MeekOneGOP]

And now Ah guess Ah bettah roll myself under the covers.

G’night all! :)

[Lancey Howard]

It's about time.

Yep.

Back in the early 1970s I had a talk with my Dad about the Vietnam war and the United States' military being prohibited by law from crossing into Laos and Cambodia (including sections of the Ho Chi Min trail) to engage the enemy. The US finally did mount a bombing offensive on those areas and that, of course, prompted zillions of partying college hippies to "protest".

When I asked Dad what he thought he gave me this example: He pointed next door and asked, "What if that neighbor kept coming into our yard and throwing stones at our house, and whenever we came out to get him he simply jumped back into his own yard and laughed at us? And suppose we were prohibited by law from going into his yard to get him, and there was nothing we could do? That would be pretty stupid, right?"

Of course it was stupid.

This Pakistan situation is "deja vu all over again".

We need to go into Pakistan and step on the cockroaches NOW, relentlessly and mercilessly.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Shutting down here too....Note all!

[gonzo]

Maybe now ..................... FRegards

[potlatch]

POTLATCH

[mad_as_he$$]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studies_and_Observations_Groupp

De Oppresso Libre

[DJ Taylor]

Nothing there, try this one:

http://www.projectdelta.net/

[mad_as_he$$]

Interesting I checked it before I posted. Must be some wiki glitch. Anyway. The original point was we didn't fight in Laos or Cambodia. Pretty sure there was from very close-up experience.

[Marine_Uncle]

Something not so readily apparent from a cursory read is that that CENTCOM must feel we have the Persian Gulf adequately covered at present regarding the imagined or real threat levels the Persians pose in disrupting the flow of oil/gas/gasoline/petrochemical derivatives in the Persian Gulf.
As for moving CVN72 Carrier Strike Group into Paki waters, for the stated purposes, it sure looks like the days of reckoning have started for the Pakistani government. Their gross inactions for so long now will come back to bite them.