Posted on 09/30/2010 1:43:01 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
ISLAMABAD -Pakistan closed the most important supply route for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan after a coalition helicopter attack killed three Pakistani soldiers at a border post Thursday, raising tensions in a vital relationship for both Islamabad and Washington. NATO said its helicopters entered Pakistani airspace and hit a target only after receiving ground fire. The alliance expressed condolences to the families of the soldiers and said both nations would investigate the incident. A lengthy ban on supply trucks would place intense strain on the U.S.-Pakistani relationship and hurt the Afghan war effort. But that was seen as unlikely, as neither Islamabad nor Washington can afford a meltdown in ties at a crucial time in the 9-year-old war. Briefly closing the route would serve a different purpose — a timely reminder by Pakistan of the leverage it has over the United States in Afghanistan just as the American-led coalition there is under growing public and political pressure to show success. The blockade left 150 trucks lined up along the fabled Khyber Pass carrying fuel, military vehicles, spare parts, clothing and other non-lethal supplies for foreign troops. Pakistan's other main route into landlocked Afghanistan, in Chaman in the southeast, stayed open.
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We need to reciprocate by cutting the lines of our tax dollars to that dump.
Not now but watch this change shortly after the innaugurations in January.
It should have been done within the hour, automatically....But when you look at who’s in Washington, I doubt they even reached for the phone.
Does NATO have permission from Pakistan to enter its airspace?
A lot of this cr*p will come to an end when we get rid of
the Obama clowns........
You’re funny!
Do we have permission from Georgia to deliver supplies via them? No, wait. We’d have to ask Moscow first. No, wait. We already screwed Poland and other former Republics in order to persuade them to let Georgia let us use their country as an alternative supply line. So will they let us?
That’s why a troop surge in Afghanistan was a mistake. Surprise, surprise.
Berlin Airlift II
We did it before, I guess we can do it again if we have to.
I’d lose no sleep if we nuked that snake pit.
Nah. Obama will bow to them, apologize, kiss a few as..... err, rings, then tell us all is alright in the world.
From which airbase? It’s also landlocked and way way in-land, so you can’t use a carrier. It’s also mountainous, so where would the trans-Atlantic cruisers needed to do an airlift from the States land? Did Mr. 125 IQ do any contingency planning at all?
other people get homicidal and upset about this.
retaliation is an inevitable.
defensive action necessary.
this is what people do.
the warrior class
Is that all he's got, LOL?
Does our administration have the guts to cut off their foreign aid too?
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The 0bama Regime will do exactly opposite of what is good for American interests. We can count on that.
It’s also true that when you’re a super power, you inevitably piss people off somewhere. If you’re a vacillating, apologetic superpower towards the people you piss off, you only infuriate them for not abjectly surrendering. A wise superpower simply deals with it. A foolish one simply vacillates and apologizes some more, and gets people even angrier.
The key is to piss off the right people.
“We need to reciprocate by cutting the lines of our tax dollars to that dump. “
Supply lines can be cut in both dimensions, and our $$ can be cut faster than the materials. Good suggestion.
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