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2008-06-07 India-Pakistan

Pak-US military relations at worst since 9/11

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Posted by Steve White 2008-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 We need a new main supply route, but I got no clue how it could shaped.

Posted by George Smiley 2008-06-07 02:45|| 2008-06-07 02:45|| Front Page Top

#2 After the defeat of Taliban, the first PEW poll reported only 8% Pakis support for military relations with the US. The bomb from the north policy is still an option. However, the bright idea to confront Russia with useless ABMs, when that country controls much of the Euro energy supplies, shoots ourselves in the foot.

What have we got in Afghanistan, in any case? We do nothing during the Helman Opium cum Heroin season, while $1 billion in product heads to Europe. We allow Taliban to take their 15% cut of that trade, while they recruit opium extractors for their Summer offensives. We capture land, that Karzai's clowns hand back to the enemy in the Winter. We sit back while UN financed phony refugee camps fuel the jihad terror industry in Pakistan. We won't plant a single mine on the Pak border, and we allow Taliban funerals to proceed, untouched (oh yes, dead Tali bodies are delivered promptly to terror families). Could George Orwell concoct a better example of perma-war stupidity?

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-07 04:14|| 2008-06-07 04:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Somebody been sneaking phosphorus rich foods into menus of US Gov cafeterias?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-06-07 06:33|| 2008-06-07 06:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Supply routes to A'stan were ALWAYS the problem. Either you make deals with Pakistan, or go the longer way around and make deals with the Russians and their former Muslim republics. Or go to war with Iran. None are good answers.
In my opinion this is the real primary reason we went to war in Iraq - we had to fight the Islamofascists somewhere, we 'could' fight them in Iraq, and Iraq was both more strategic and more logistically manageable. In A'stan we are stuck to the tar baby, in Iraq we ARE the tar baby (or flypaper, whatever.) But this is not the kind of story a Western administration can publically admit to, not to mention that it would be militarily counterproductive to do so as well. Hence the naive McClellan's claims that Bush lied to the people about the war. Didn't 'lie', but undoubtedly (and correctly) left a lot of truth unsaid.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-06-07 08:43|| 2008-06-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#5 This qualifies for Good News of the Day.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-06-07 10:21|| 2008-06-07 10:21|| Front Page Top

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