This is no secret. Our Intelligence Agencies have known this for years.
Pakistan is the haven for the Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS and every terrorist group in the M.E.
Yet even Trump pays the leaders of Pakistan billions each year.
Time to shut the spigot and tighten the knot.
Bin Laden was an honored guest of Pock Eee Stahn.
Shades of Vietnam. The bad guys could hang out and gear up in Cambodia and Laos, then insert across the border at will.
We need to find a way to get completely out of that part of the world insofar as any direct fighting is concerned. I absolutely loathe Boosh II for the deaths of our young men ( mostly young men) and the pi$$ing away of three trillion bucks or more on that effing sandpile of $hit people. Give the Israelis’ some land in Montana and have them walk away from “The Holy Land!” Oh, and one more thing, kick every last sand monkey out of this country permanently.
Is that news? They did for forty years.
If the Pakistani military went into the Wazir valley in force to clean out the Taliban, they would get their ass handed to them.
From Wana up to Miram Shah, it is nothing but a bunch of armed, fanatic tribesmen who would cut the Pakis into shreds.
The vast majority of Pakistanis outside of the Wazir valley would like nothing better than to reform with India and live like the Indians do. But the Wazirs keep them in the stone age.