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2008-09-27 India-Pakistan

Pakistan could defeat militants in months

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Posted by Steve White 2008-09-27 00:36|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I'll wait to pass judgment on the troop transport trucks, it's those two on point that are not instilling any confidence - is that a bicycle built for two?

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2008-09-27 03:05|| 2008-09-27 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Of course Pakistan could beat them in months. They don't want to, there's the catch.

Posted by gromky 2008-09-27 04:14|| 2008-09-27 04:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Months???? Huh? - They've had 721 months and haven't made visible progress, not that the British did all that much better in roughly two centuries before them, Sir Charles Napier excepted.

Took a few centuries to close the frontier in North America, if Mexico is considered "closed".

Posted by Halliburton - Asymmetrical Reply Division 2008-09-27 07:56|| 2008-09-27 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ...another of the smallest books in history - Pakistani Battlefield Victories*.

*occupying the President for Life position does not qualify as a 'battlefield' victory.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-27 08:33|| 2008-09-27 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 "We caught 200 crossing the border with rocket launchers from Afghanistan," said Maj Gen Khan, who appeared angry at America's failure to control the frontier. "But there is no such effort to stop them".

well, since they were returning home, don't you Paks think you have a responsibility here?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-27 10:08|| 2008-09-27 10:08|| Front Page Top

#6 As Fred has pointed out, while the various players are members of different tribes and thus hate each other, they're in agreement on the broad principles of Pakistain: 1) Hindus are evil and must be put down 2) Sharia is the only natural law 3) Afghanistan is the preserve and pasture of Pakistain and 4) everyone is out to get them. The only questions are how much Sharia and who gets to wear the bejeweled turban.

So of course the Pak army doesn't want to fight the ~~rubes~~ frontier people. They're cousins. Close cousins.

Posted by Steve White 2008-09-27 11:38|| 2008-09-27 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Counterinsurgency wars are not easy. By this time our military knows quite a bit about successful counterinsurgency efforts from both training and experience. Aghanistan and Pakistan are bundled together. We don't win in Aghanistan unless we control things in Pakistan. That means having the support of the larger population and government of Pakistan, having good intelligence, and isolating the militants (terrorists) from the larger population. This is a tall order. Whether Pakistan is up to the task is a big, big question mark. The Pakistan military shooting at our helicopters is not a good sign of their willingness to do something about their terrorist problems.

To win in Afghanistan and Pakistan, our military has to have the support of our government. Many in our Congress and the main stream media torpedoed the war effort in Vietnam and they would like to torpedo the effort in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We cannot win in these hostile areas if we can't win the hostile areas in the U.S. I remember seeing patent hostility that some of our Democratic Senators showed when they questioned General Petraeus when he testified before Congress. I remember, the moonbat left Soros-backed MoveOn.org referring to General Petraeus as General Betrayus. That is very sad, treacherous, and downright evil. I will remember this traitorous behavior when I vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Despite what BO says, I don't believe that he is ready, able, or has the willingness to address our terrorism problems. So in order to win in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we must win two wars. I never, ever want to see our buildings toppling and our skyline on fire and 3000 of our citizens murdered before our eyes on television.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-27 12:53|| 2008-09-27 12:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Whether Pakistan is up to the task is a big, big question mark.

Sadly, Pakistan will not begin to be up to the task until as a society they decide that it is not only worth doing, but that they themselves must do it, not us as their servants/dupes. They are not anywhere near that point, even if a few of the intelligencia are willing to say that the jihadis are now attempting to conquer Punjabi Pakistan as well as the tribal territories and Afghanistan. I've no idea how to square that circle with the fact that for the nonce we need the transport corridor to Afghanistan even more now that the fight is moving there from Iraq.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-09-27 13:34|| 2008-09-27 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Civil Wars suck. Killing your own is never easy. Pakistan, even without all the Islamic baggage, is in a world of hurt.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-27 19:53|| 2008-09-27 19:53|| Front Page Top

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