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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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To: Rockingham
“world though has now diminished the potential for renewed use of Afghanistan as a base for terrorism against the US.”

That's the nonsense Obama media has peddled to claim victory in Afghanistan and get the hell out. Anyone who knows the actual situation on the ground knows the opposite to be true.

Pakistan's Army (and ISI) are a different entity from the Islamists. The Pakistan's Army (and ISI) are hostile to India. I am not saying the Islamists think of India with affection. At the moment they just hate US a little more then India. Pak army on the other hand is wholly a tool of the US. They are completely funded and armed by the US. Without US, Pak army is nothing, they will cease to exist tomorrow. A country that is tethering on the brink of civil war between it various disenchanted sectarian groups, the army keeps a firm grip on the country by fanning a common historical hatred for Hindus. If hatred for India is absent, their army will have no role for itself.

“Apparently, newer US technologies can spoof targeted radars to the point of disguising intruders as if they are innocuous. “

Nonsense. If such radar spoofing technology had been that perfected to be able to fly in Chinooks for 160 miles from Afghanistan, landing them and then going and back via the same route without Pakistan ever knowing, countries (US included) wont be spending Billions of dollars developing fighters jets and helicopters with stealth technology that are completely blind to the radar. Would be an awful waste of money if we can just spoof radars that easily.

40 posted on 08/23/2012 10:38:09 PM PDT by ravager
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