Posted on 09/20/2008 6:18:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Will US physical entry in to Pakistan actually help in suppressing the resistance to occupation of Afghanistan and bring peace to the region? If yes, let's do it. However, it will only radicalize the population, leaving no other option with Washington but to declare Pakistan a 'rogue state'. The premise for US entry is that Pakistan Army is either incapable or unwilling to 'clean up the mess'.
Then, does the US Army plan to do this in conjunction with Pakistan Army or in spite of it? It should now be abundantly clear that joint US-Pakistan ground operations in side our borders are not acceptable to this nation and its armed forces. Any other idea is wishful. Even aerial targeting is now not tolerable. We cannot, any more, continue to pretend that this was not happening. We were slowly and helplessly maneuvered in to such a compromising position that we even owned up some of their strikes killing many innocent citizens, and paid heavily in reprisals. Has this seven years' strategy made any headway?
Today, the US Dept of Defense and the Pentagon accept that they are not winning, but given more of the same they could do it. Afghanistan is not controllable, and they insist that if the war were spread into Pakistan, peace would prevail; Vietnam logic? Have the consequences been forgotten?
Will this spread be controllable? Will the operations then extend into Peshawar and beyond? How many more men and dollars will be pumped in, and coffins pumped out? Is there an end in sight? Does this make sense? Is anyone listening? Hello!
(Excerpt) Read more at nation.com.pk ...
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Is anyone listening?”
OPINION: Yes, but most of the “listeners” propbably don’t talk about what they are listening to (in public forums).
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Thanks for the ping Jet Jaguar.
Pakistan is headed for civil war. Been needed for a long time. Just hope the westernized Pakis who have most of the money and power there are tough enough to go toe to toe in the streets with the Jihadis. I doubt it.
Let’s put em all on Madagascar and televise the event from satelites? GAWD! I know I’d pony up a massive subscription fee to watch that! Would last for months until all that was left were a few dazed and wounded stragglers. We could just let those starve to death.
So Pakistan is threatening the west with Nagasaki era plutonium implosion weapons on refurbished Russian launch platforms. I pity them when they discover the hard way sixty years of intense research into multiple reentry dial-a-megaton hydrogen warhead city killers on stealthy cruise missiles. Sucks to be vaporized, but that’s what they’re asking for.
We’ve got them arrogantly writing to us now in Time, ,New York Slimes, Nation etc...bleech, and don’t forget their “contributors” on NPR and CNN.
They must be desperate...LOL
We have them ‘surrounded’....Iran too!
God Bless Our Troops and Our Commander in Chief...President G.W. BUSH!!
(that ought to bring the trolls out tonight...lol)
I am so glad you posted that...how Liberals (particularly Jews) defend Islam when it had NO tolerance for any of the Left’s views, in fact, murders a homosexual or unfaithful wife, prohibits abortion, believes in capital punishment (with no cruel and unusual provisions...see stoning) has no freedom for women, to vote, drive or do anything but be a housewife...
The Nation puts the US as the bad guy to an ideology that murders, not walks around with signs protesting.
The disease of Liberalism grows and the media waters the festering thistle.
LOL! I haven’t heard that one in a couple of decades.
second that
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