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2007-07-18 Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 What I have never understood about our resistance to going after AQ in NWFP and Waziristan is what are we afraid of? Not the Paki army since they don't, won't and can't even handle a littel dust up in those areas. With an airpower/specops there we can probably decimate the AQ/Taliban population and control the tribes. Why fear something that is not fearsome?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-18 08:24|| 2007-07-18 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 We've been trying to prop up Musharaff in power, since the alternative is the ISI Taliban wing or the even more corrupt/inept widows of dictators past.

Overt action in the region stands a strong chance of bringing down his government. We'll end up doing it, but only because/when he is clearly failing anyway, I suspect.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-18 08:49|| 2007-07-18 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 daughter, not widow

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-18 09:24|| 2007-07-18 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 A couple more Red Mosque type incidents and Perv is gonna have to slug it out with these people anyway.

Posted by treo 2007-07-18 10:16|| 2007-07-18 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Jack, we could do all that, just as long as you don't mind reading about in the NYT the next day with all the disapproving editorials and a long screed from Seymour Hersh as to how we're just making everything worse.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-07-18 10:45|| 2007-07-18 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Steve,

It seems to me we are beyond that. What the hell could the NYT/LAT/WaPo/NBC/CBS/ABC/NPR cabal say further that would be worse than what they have done to impede our safety and security as it is? Bush seems pretty thick skinned (although he did wimp out politically on Libby) but he is also a little tentative at times. If ISI types and the military replace Mushy what will they do that they haven't been able to do so far in the NWFP and Waziristan? Join forces with Taliban and AQ? Do you think they want a war with us? Especially since their tendency would be to point to their nukes and we then point to ours in subs, 52's and so on. It would be certain one-way MAD! I just think that sometimes you have to push the envelope just to understand the effect of doing that would "really" be not in theory but practice.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-07-18 12:00|| 2007-07-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

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