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2008-06-07 India-Pakistan

NATO fuel supplies remain suspended as negotiations fail

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Posted by Steve White 2008-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 time to purify the NWFP and some N-Weapon storage sites.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-07 02:43|| 2008-06-07 02:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay, so we supply by plane alone and rely on air attacks. Thus, we become less concerned about collateral damage.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-07 03:50|| 2008-06-07 03:50|| Front Page Top

#3 McZ - you still have to overfly Pakistan, and one presumes they would withhold permission to do so under the circumstances you describe. A few surreptitious overflights are one thing, a full bombing and air supply campaign could (reasonably) be considered an act of war - and we cannot afford another war right now.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-06-07 08:33|| 2008-06-07 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 And Wakiland cannot afford a few things either, like being thrown to the wolves in the NW Frontier, or losing American partnership to India. Pakistan isn't really in any position to be a clever dick about this. They'd find it to be a lonely world without any friends.

Posted by Uninetch Big Foot9404 2008-06-07 10:57|| 2008-06-07 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, with things quieting down in Iraq, we CAN afford to kick Pakistan into the next century - WITH India's help. If you start to see a lot of US diplomats going to India, know that things may be about to happen. If every inch of real estate between Karachi and Kabul is Afganistan territory, this nonsense will stop at once. This has a very high probability of happening, either now or at some future date when the world gets tired of "the land of the pure", and stomps on Pakistan's soul.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-06-07 17:03|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-07 17:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The war sounds easy OP. Tell me about your post-war plan.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-06-07 17:33|| 2008-06-07 17:33|| Front Page Top

#7 stomps on Pakistan's soul.

OP, you have an unsubstantiated assumption in the above statement.

Posted by Glenmore 2008-06-07 19:51|| 2008-06-07 19:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Does this mean Pakistan received all the F-16s they ordered?

Posted by ed 2008-06-07 20:29|| 2008-06-07 20:29|| Front Page Top

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