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  • Posted By: raj gupta @ 11/08/2008 5:04:21 AM

    UK troups in Afghanistan have identified cases of Paki soldiers fighting them in Al Qaeda outfits. The Paki Army garrison is the best place for OSAMA to feel safe. Hope Obama will get to the bottom of this issue t

  • Posted By: raj gupta @ 11/08/2008 5:00:25 AM

    Entering Pakistan to kill militant sis the next step - first task is to finish the Pak Army which is the logistics and manpower hub of ALQueda. Ho can ex ISI chief Kayani be of any help to USA?

  • Posted By: PJW5552 @ 11/07/2008 6:11:38 PM

    Increase the military presence. Kill more people. Justify it all based on addressing our interests. Power and force rule and they certainly provide the means for doing whatever you like. Ignore the Pakistani people and their government. Sound familiar? It is the perfect storm for creating hate, anger and more violence. Everyone wants to stop terrorism, but the approach of killing civilians in order to facilitate the deaths of terrorists is not a solution. It is a violent answer to a problem that makes the US no different from the terrorists we are fighting.

    Work out a strategic plan with the Pakistani government. Set up a border protection/early warning in Afghanistan that will identify movement across the border regions and quick response teams to deal with the border crossings threat. We???re killing the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Pakistan because we can't seem to capture or kill them when they arrive in Afghanistan to create mayhem. Our present actions are feeding the recruitment of terrorists, not reducing their recruitment and making it harder for Pakistan to deal with them.

    Just think, if we destabilize the Pakistani government enough by making the Pakistani government irrelevant with respect to our cross-border raids, the Taliban and al-Qaeda may garner enough support and sympathizers in a weakened Pakistani government to help them gain access to nuclear weapons grade material. Imagine the damage that a few nuclear bombs in terrorist hands would do. It would make 9/11 seem tame by comparison. Is that the kind of instability we want to encourage in that region of the world?

    • Posted By: svengali @ 11/08/2008 12:06:30 AM

      The Pakistani democratically elected government will be strengthened by US attacks on the terrorists who have come to roost on their soil. It is the Pakistani Army (patrons of the Taliban) who will be weakened. The Pakistani Army has destroyed and weakened all institutions in Pakistan including the democratic governments. More US attacks will ensure the return of real democracy in Pakistan and safe custody of the nuclear arsenal. This can only occur with the attenuation of the Pakistani Army and the devolution of power to the democratically elected leaders

  • Posted By: DaveBrackett @ 11/07/2008 6:44:05 PM

    I clicked on the link "Newsweek: Are U.S. attacks in Pakistan a bad idea?" A pertinent question, I guess. But I like this one better, though: Are they Illegal? or this one: Do they constitute war crimes? or even: are we still a nation of laws? or this: who cares?....either i am right on top of this story and will expect to see hundreds of other posts in the next hours or PJW and I are the only ones who even remotely care. If we aren't a nation laws any longer, or at least those pescky international laws, will anybody notice?

  • Posted By: DaveBrackett @ 11/07/2008 6:43:06 PM

    I clicked on the link "Newsweek: Are U.S. attacks in Pakistan a bad idea?" A pertinent question, I guess. But I like this one better, though: Are they Illegal? or this one: Do they constitute war crimes? or even: are we still a nation of laws? or this: who cares?....either i am right on top of this story and will expect to see hundreds of other posts in the next hours or PJW and I are the only ones who even remotely care. If we aren't a nation

  • Posted By: MadHax @ 11/07/2008 6:34:53 PM

    Pakistani people, especially their military, are liars. All they want is aid from the US. They simply cannot be trusted to do anything significant about terrorism. The US needs to do what it can to identify and kill the terrorists by itself ASAP. I hope the Obama administration will understand this.

    I certainly wouldn't want the Pakistani government toppled by their own. They need to be kept in power so they can tame the country.

  • Posted By: sanman @ 11/07/2008 6:34:03 PM

    Nonsense, every time the US has coordinated with the Pakistanis and tipped them off in advance of a strike on AlQaeda, the Pakistani officials immediately pass on that information to the AlQaeda targets, allowing them to escape. The Pakistanis are milking the War on Terror all they can, obtaining combat jets and other high-end weapons systems that have no use against AlQaeda and Taliban. Since when does Taliban have an airforce that Pakistan needs warplanes to shoot them down? Why would Pakistan need SAMs to defend against AlQaeda? Additionally, Pakistan's military takes a huge chunk of the budget, which adds to the burden of Pakistan's existing economic mismanagement. Without the War on Terror, Pakistan wouldn't even be able to survive economically.

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