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2006-09-09 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anything that permits the Taliban continued oxygen consumption can only be construed as a "win" for them. We need to Arclight Western Pakistan, then post aerial drones to kill whatever crawls out of the rubble.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-09 03:01|| 2006-09-09 03:01|| Front Page Top

#2 I believe the only way to stop the nonsense in Pakistan is to do away with the nation entirely. Divide it along the Indus river - give the eastern part to India, and the western part to Afghanistan. Afghanistan gets oil and gas, a deep-water port, and expanded territory in which to live and prosper. India gets a nuclear test range, a solution to the "Kashmir problem", and an opportunity to allow its army to knock some heads together. "Pakistan" was created by the British. It's time for the Americans to end its existence, in cooperation with Afghanistan and India. A noble but failed experiment, time to move on.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-09-09 04:19|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-09 04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 If Saudi / Wahhabist funding dried up, I get the feeling that PakiLand would disintegrate into an even more desperate free-for-all between the gazillion factions... I'm thinking implosion.

I believe it ends in either implosion and disintegration, simply digesting itself, or someday being turned into a grid of smoking holes. But that's just me.

Posted by flyover 2006-09-09 05:37|| 2006-09-09 05:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Not just you.

Posted by Uliter Glosh6909 2006-09-09 08:57|| 2006-09-09 08:57|| Front Page Top

#5 LOL, do you have a preference, UG6909? :)

Posted by flyover 2006-09-09 10:07|| 2006-09-09 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 GOSH (Grid of Smoking Holes) pour l'encouragement l'autres

Posted by Uliter Glosh6909 2006-09-09 10:45|| 2006-09-09 10:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Politically and socially Pakistan is headed towards what Afghanistan looked like after the Soviets pulled out.

Only they have nuclear weapons capabilities.

Posted by DoDo 2006-09-09 12:14|| 2006-09-09 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Okay. Be cool. I've been thinking about this story and the grid thing for a few hours now, and like a lightening bolt (Lol, I was watching a MegaDisaster episode on The History Channel) it came to me. And I wanted to share it. Think of it as just a little thought experiment brought on by watching too much "documentary" TV...

First it was overpopulation and mass starvation. Then killer asteroids. Then super tsunamis. Now super volcanos. And, sooner or later, a pandemic that dwarfs the 1918 Spanish Flu. I'm sure I've left out some doozies that've been floated by the scammers, but this suffices, I'd say. MegaHumongoMonsterDisasters. Human extinction. It will happen. We can't stop it. Global ~~warming~~ ~~cooling~~ climate change? Piffle. Petty kid stuff. I'm talking ELE here. We're waaay doomed. I saw it on TV.

I propose that we round some of our megasmart non-idiotarians and study the shit out of these phenomena and, wherever possible, we figure out where the "safest" places on the planet will be. We should go ahead and quarantine all of the shitheads who're directly assisting in our doom, such as China. We can play up how they've mishandled things and screwed over WHO and everyone else trying to protect themselves. Piece of cake to make the case. It's easy to show pricks to be, well, pricks. And then, when the Venn diagrams have been drawn, percentages calculated, mineshaft gaps plugged, plenty of hot Indian policewymyns and extra Buck Turgison purdy wymyns, and most excelent super-good cooks identified, important stocks prepositioned, fiber optics laid for the cool-folks intranet that will remain, our good guys have packed their gear, moonbats pinpointed (Hey, you didn't think you'd get off without individual assignments, did ya?) and the "inventories" are full, you can figure out the drill, well then: we go ahead and kill everyone we don't like - making sure we clear out the "safe zones", in particular. When we have the list of losers, the logical deserving recipients of our attention, we'll prove how smart we are - we'll mimic our betters and start a UN Fund to which they'll be required to donate to, heavily. We'll think up a good reason. Remember the 'B' Ark? Like that. The goat-star idea was pretty inventive. We can match it. We'll put some in ourselves to remove suspicion - and convince them they'll be the only ones who will be allowed to draw on it. Something like that. They'll go for it - it's what they live for. So we get their money and stuff then kill 'em. Kill 'em all off.

We'll prolly have to restart those neutron weapons production lines. I like Italian leather shoes and silk kimonos.

I figure we'll let John Howard in on the gig. He's smart and extra-cool. Ozzies are our natural brothers. real Mavericks and stuff, like us. They'll see the beauty of the plan and probably help us figure out how to scam the losers. Mebbe we'll have an internal poll to see if there's anyone else out there who won't fuck things up. I'm not too optimistic.

We don't know when we'll need these zones, but I don't believe in procrastination. So let's get on it today.

Yep. Shit's gonna fall on us, drown us, blow us up, destroy us from within. We're seriously screwed - if we don't act. If we're too wimpy to do this, then we deserve to get whacked. Sure it sucks a little, but we're tough, aren't we? We're forward-thinking and all that shit, right? Well hell then, let's get on the stick.

Be prepared. That's my motto.

Go ahead, X us up. I'm ready. I have a plan, baby.

Posted by .com 2006-09-09 12:37|| 2006-09-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#9 WB

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-09 12:37|| 2006-09-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#10 Duh. Forgot the San Andreas, of course.

Posted by .com 2006-09-09 12:52|| 2006-09-09 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Dude, are you really back?

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-09-09 14:01|| 2006-09-09 14:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Heh, yeah, at least a little of me is back. I apologize if my posts don't measure up... I don't have much to say these days that isn't being well said already by someone else and my mental state is very mental, indeed, lol.

Posted by .com 2006-09-09 14:16|| 2006-09-09 14:16|| Front Page Top

#13 Good to have you here again, .com.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 14:36|| 2006-09-09 14:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey, lotp. :-)

So, got some nominees for figuring out those wind patterns 'n stuff? I figure we're globally hated, are sooo doomed when the Yellowstone SuperVol goes off, and really have nothing to lose except our existence, so we should get on top of this thing. Night basketball just isn't cutting it, anymore. From a sterile POV it's the only purely rational response to the way things are headed. Pretty hard to swallow, I know, all those inconvenient feelings and such falderol, but ya gotta admit it's logical. Heh.

I blame The History Channel and NatGeo. Those MegaDisaster shows really get the juices flowing, y'know? It's all of the not if, but when variety. Unassailable logic boxes - reminiscent of my hero, Den Beste. Lol.

Let's roll.

Posted by .com 2006-09-09 14:53|| 2006-09-09 14:53|| Front Page Top

#15 I blame The History Channel and NatGeo.

Hey stranger, you can tell it's getting bad when even National Geographic's journalists are being detained as spies.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-09 15:03|| 2006-09-09 15:03|| Front Page Top

#16 Night basketball just isn't cutting it, anymore

Sadly true, .com. A nation of social workers has lost its purpose.

Posted by lotp 2006-09-09 15:09|| 2006-09-09 15:09|| Front Page Top

#17 #16 ltop: "Night basketball just isn't cutting it, anymore.

Sadly true, .com. A nation of social workers has lost its purpose."

Gott sei dank!!

Now if they would just get lost, too....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-09 16:05|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-09-09 16:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Lol, Barbara. A little short on patience with the social engineering crowd, eh?

Posted by .com 2006-09-09 16:11|| 2006-09-09 16:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Divide it along the Indus river - give the eastern part to India, and the western part to Afghanistan.

Problem is, neither of them want it.

Unless you're suggesting the land is cleared of its "inhabitants" first. Might get some takers in that case.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-09-09 16:46|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-09-09 16:46|| Front Page Top

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