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2005-07-09 Afghanistan/South Asia

Rival aims hindering Afghan theatre of battle

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Posted by Paul Moloney 2005-07-09 02:44|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just my untutored take, but...

Time to cut to the chase with Pakistan. Those 16 men who died in the Chinook crash are worth more than all of the intel we have gotten from asshats captured with PakiWaki assistance in my math.

Simply put, no more deals with asshats, Period. No accomodation. No games. Everything above board.

PakiWakiLand is a shithole, a bubbling pot teeming with Islamonutz vying for Asstard of the Month honors. The ISI is obviously well beyond Pervy's control - and it is the foundation underlying the whole game. They "control" (as far as that term is applicable) PakiWakiLand, not Pervy, and they are our enemies. Period. Full stop.

No arms, no more aid, no more debt cancellations, no more nothing. Treat PakiWakiland exactly as we do Iran and Syria. Conduct military ops with that as the baseline. I don't want to lose anyone else to this circle-jerk of conflicting Islamonutz and Warlord games - one is too many. The mid and lower level US Military and SF Teams know who they trust - and who they don't. Bush and Rummy and Goss and the Afghan Theater Commander should step back and let the guys at the pointed end create the policy and ROE. No one else knows shit, compared to them.

Posted by .com 2005-07-09 05:49|| 2005-07-09 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 What .com said. Always remember the Pakiwakis, especially the ISI, are playing their own game.

Posted by Spot">Spot 2005-07-09 09:34|| 2005-07-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Give the Afghans and the Paks one month to clear the border region and then kill anything that moves within 10 miles of the border. Sovereignty be damned.

Posted by Neutron Tom 2005-07-09 11:13|| 2005-07-09 11:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry, .com, but I disagree -- not that the Pakiwakis aren't asstards, they are. But cleaning the place out now is a low priority for us. We need to deal with 1) Syria 2) Iran 3) N Korea 4) Egypt and 5) Saudi-controlled Arabia before we even think of dealing with the Pakiwakis.

They're asstards, but they're managable asstards. For now. Just my opinion.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-07-09 13:11|| 2005-07-09 13:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Managable that can move to unmanageable at any time.
I say carpet bomb the border any time Pakistani Talaban cross it. Most of the "fighters" are not even Afghan they are Pakistani. The ISI is up to it's neck in involvement and they are the ones protecting OBL as well. Anything done by the WakiPaki is mere window dressing.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-09 13:27|| 2005-07-09 13:27|| Front Page Top

#6 agreed on creating a new LOC on the Afghan-Paki border. In fact, call it exactly that, just to piss off the MMA, and declare hot pursuit in operation (via massive artillery and B2's). A swath of off-limits land in which you enter and declare your life forfeit. Only transit via enforced checkpoints allowed (smuggling, taliban infiltration will still happen, but now it's "lay waste to violators and STFU to the next of kin")

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-09 18:57|| 2005-07-09 18:57|| Front Page Top

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