Hot Pursuit Into Pakistan?

IBD Editorials ^ | July 11, 2008

[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.