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2011-10-17 India-Pakistan
Kharotabad: Trendy vacation spot for the Taliban
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Posted by ryuge 2011-10-17 10:05|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Ah, the Fleshpots of Quetta...

Probably not up to the standards of R&R in Bangkok in '69...
Posted by Fred 2011-10-17 10:49||   2011-10-17 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet Pakistan remains in denial regarding their support to the insurgency.
Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 10:58||   2011-10-17 10:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Notice they didn't say which NGO....
Posted by tipover 2011-10-17 12:21||   2011-10-17 12:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like an opportunity to for us to creatively 'modify' the motorbike supply to the community.
Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-17 13:08||   2011-10-17 13:08|| Front Page Top

#5 ARCLIGHT Quetta and the whole operation will come crashing down. So will the government of Pakistan - a twofer.
Posted by Old Patriot 2011-10-17 14:22||   2011-10-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 ARCLIGHT Quetta and the whole operation will come crashing down. So will the government of Pakistan - a twofer.
Posted by Old Patriot

Not to discount the validity of the ascertion, but I recently heard a similar suggestion, B52 strikes, etc. It was met in the forum with unbelieveable outrage. Claims of genocide, racism, etc. Just a friendly caution.
Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 16:23||   2011-10-17 16:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Laat die kinders speel
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-17 16:55||   2011-10-17 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 It seems that the NGO's funds and accounts could be siezed under current terrorism laws.
Posted by 3dc 2011-10-17 17:24||   2011-10-17 17:24|| Front Page Top

#9 Old Patriot - I agree with Sofa-Soldier on this, although for reasons other than his.

Unless you can be pretty damned sure that you are only hitting military targets, ARCLIGHTs constitute mass killing of non-combatants. There are good reasons we don't do that - reasons that have to do with our own integrity, quite apart from the worthiness of the general society involved.

OTOH I have no objection to JDAMs on specific targets, with the knowledge that there might well be collateral casualties whose allegiance is, let us say, grey ....
Posted by lotp 2011-10-17 17:36||   2011-10-17 17:36|| Front Page Top

#10 In defense of B52 strikes (strategic bombing) and sensor technology, not entirely unlike what is used today:

Operation Igloo White was a covert United States Air Force electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War.[1] This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and communications relay aircraft in an attempt to automate intelligence collection. The system would then assist in the direction of strike aircraft to their targets. The objective of those attacks was the logistical system of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) that snaked through southeastern Laos and was known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail (the Truong Son Road to the North Vietnamese).[1]

Igloo White was rushed into service during the Battle of Khe Sanh and successfully passed its first operational test. Combined with Operation Commando Hunt in 1969, the system served as the keystone of the U.S. aerial interdiction effort of the Vietnam War.

Costing between $1 and $1.7 billion dollars to design and build (and another billion dollars per year to operate over the five-year life of the operation) and possessing and controlling some of the most sophisticated technology in the Southeast Asia theater, the effectiveness of Igloo White still remains in question.
Posted by Sofa-Soldier 2011-10-17 19:20||   2011-10-17 19:20|| Front Page Top

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