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To: Rockingham
American boots are overtly and covertly on Pakistani soil right now. Bin Laden was a hero in Pakistan and he was killed on Pakistani soil. US drones kills Pakistanis every now and then. Pakistani protesters burn US flags almost on a daily basis not Indian. I dont think you follow Pakistani news channels but I do. Ironically some of their extremist radical Islamic leaders have claimed that India is not their real enemy, never was, it's only due to circumstantial reason it turned out that way....US is their existential enemy. Pakistanis are currently burning with rage over America not India.

As I said, when Pakistan falls apart, US would be far more worried about their own butts. US has men and material locked up in Afghanistan that will become the first target in the on going war. And geographical isolation didn't stop 9/11 from happening.

The Chinooks and Apaches are not stealth jets. They flew unchallenged deep inside Pakistani airspace over densely populated Abbotabad which also has their main military base, only a few miles away from capital Islamabad and only a few mile away from Indian border. You really think you caught Pakistan by surprise with American military capability?

Bin Laden outlived his usefulness to Pakistanis. Regardless of what military capability you may have, if Pakistani air defense had decided to engage, those Apaches and Chinooks would have dropped down like flies.

Yes controlling Afghanistan until the Taliban was completely destroyed and installing a friendly/democratic government was the US objective in Afghanistan. Until those objectives were later on deemed unachievable and thus today its watered down to simply cutting and running. Obama govt invented a fictitious “moderate Taliban” with whom they can now come to a “settlement”. Fact is US lost in Afghanistan.

Even when Taliban was at its peak the couldn't do much in Kashmir. Apaches, Chinooks and special forces raid make for interesting cover stories. They don't necessarily win wars.

33 posted on 08/23/2012 4:34:30 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager
The US needed a forced alliance with Pakistan to prosecute the Afghan war. The attrition suffered by Al Queda and its allies there and throughout the world though has now diminished the potential for renewed use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorism against the US.

Claims by Pakistan's Islamists that they do not regard India as an enemy ought to be taken with much caution. The ISI guided attack on Mumbai and Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal pointed at India suggest that Pakistan thinks of India with something other than affection.

Apparently, newer US technologies can spoof targeted radars to the point of disguising intruders as if they are innocuous. As you hint, the US may also have had the benefit of bribery or covert official assistance in the Bin Laden raid.

37 posted on 08/23/2012 8:05:15 PM PDT by Rockingham
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