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2011-09-29 India-Pakistan

Resolution to stop aid moved in US Congress

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 And when the Paks decide not to let us ship our Afghan war materials and supplies over their LOC's, (ports and roads) then what? Is this the administration plan, cripple our logistics and re-supply capability, bring everyone home, and blame the Paks?

Should never have funded the bastids anyway. Buying friends is not the answer, particularly Islamic friends. They have a very strange and quite different sense of gratitude.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-29 00:39|| 2011-09-29 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 They have a very strange and quite different sense of gratitude.

Don't you mean a sense of right and wrong?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-29 01:40|| 2011-09-29 01:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Besoeker, aren't we sending ever more supplies via Russia and India and such? I thought I read somewhere that we are aiming to reduce the supply line through Pakistan to practically nothing, or have I misunderstood?

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-29 09:24|| 2011-09-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not a logistician TW, I hope what you've seen is correct. The news I am getting relates to the continued theft, and break-ins of sealand containers, missing military items, and exploding fuel tankers. If the logistics strategy is to move toward India, that's a good thing. Russia, possibly not so much.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-29 11:45|| 2011-09-29 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Hopefully someone else will chime in then, Besoeker, because I'm not nearly smart nor organized enough to be a logistician, either. I just have time to read, and some bits stick in my memory...

But agreed that running the supplies in via Pakistan is an open invitation to serious shrinkage.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-09-29 15:54|| 2011-09-29 15:54|| Front Page Top

#6 an open invitation to serious shrinkage.

Inventory shrinkage or shrinkage of Pakistain itself?

Posted by SteveS 2011-09-29 16:43|| 2011-09-29 16:43|| Front Page Top

#7 I believe that by year end no Pakistani logistics will be required. Depending on the Russians for 50% or more has its own downside but they have incentive to play nice. They are scared stiff that Afghanistan will go all Paki and then the CIS Stans will go into full blown insurgency mode. Then there is the unfettered drugs weapon that an Islamic victory will bring.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-09-29 16:54|| 2011-09-29 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Then there is the unfettered drugs weapon that an Islamic victory will bring.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165

Already arrived and in full bloom (no pun intended).

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-29 16:56|| 2011-09-29 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 This is a stupid move.

The administration needs to learn how to not aggravate situations worse. The STUPID Congress needs to focus on keeping the USA from becoming Argentina, not helping S*** for brains POTUS piss off the few "allies" we have left. Intel is important and any lead in is better than none.

Posted by newc 2011-09-29 22:43|| 2011-09-29 22:43|| Front Page Top

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