Sounds like the US Mexican border.
About damn time!
The border between the infested Paki area and Afghanistan is along Afghanistan's Kunar Province in the isolated northeast mountains of the Hindu Kush.
Those mountains and valleys provide taliban entry in and out of the Kunar like water through a colander. The pakis let them flow into the Kunar at will to strike the ANA and our troops and then to scurry back to safety in Paki.
This has been devastating and results in our troops having to, effectively, fight the same battles with the same miscreants (actually, the Pakis and other countries there call the terrorists "miscreants" - sounds more benign, but look it up...it really fits) over and over, day after day.
The Kunar is so isolated from the rest of Afghanistan, they don't even speak Afghani, but Pushto. Our troops up there have been in the worst fighting of the entire WOT...intense and daily. Most of them are isolated on tiny fire posts they literally pickax out of the mountain side, 2 1/2 hours of hiking with 100 lb packs, like mountain goats, away from the OPs. (no runing water or power, no showers for weeks at a time, almost daily fire-fights )- all the time, totally vulnerable to ambush and snipers.
The Korengal Valley of the Kunar is the worst - aka "Taliban Central"...The Sky Soldiers of the 173rd have been carrying the heavy load - and the heavy losses.
It's about damn time someone starts to shut off the swinging door to/from Pakistan.
Good on Kazai! (I'm sure this was all worked out with us - and is the perfect solution. How can Pakistan argue that Afghanistan doesn't have the right to protect it's borders and it's troops? If the edict came from us directly, there would be a hue and cry, not only from Pakistan but the miscreants sympathizers, aiders & abettors in DC.
This could be the most far reaching move of the entire war in Afghanistan - Dear God, let it be so.
I’m with you, Karzai. Drop leaflets first. I wouldn’t want any innocent civilians or nice dogs or cats hurt.
Karzai has apparently gained some strength and confidence in the past couple years. The power vacuum in Pakistan provides the opportunity.
Thank you, Karzai. About time someone did.
BTW, his brother owns an Afghan restaurant in Baltimore—it’s pretty good :)
On the other hand, when Obama foolishly suggested invading Pakistan with US troops, the silence from the Liberal organs was deafening.
