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2009-03-31 India-Pakistan

Petraeus hints at striking targets within Pak as 'Last Resort'

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Reading between the lines. This is cover for a reduction or elimination of drone strikes in Pakland.

All credit to the Bush administrations arm twisting that allowed them to continue as long as they did. They were deeply unpopular in Pakland and not to mention an act of war on a sovereign state.

Posted by phil_b 2009-03-31 01:03|| 2009-03-31 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 They were deeply unpopular in Pakland and not to mention an act of war on a sovereign state.

Hague Convention of 1907 - "a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction."

Pakistan is allowing its territory to be used for belligerent actions in Afghanistan, a sovereign state, and could be indeed construed as an act of war.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-31 07:39|| 2009-03-31 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "threats inside Pakistan"

Too much to hope that he's talking about the ISI... of course, he is known for thinking outside the box.....

Posted by Snenter McGurque6942 2009-03-31 12:15|| 2009-03-31 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 ...and by 'last resort', we mean next Tuesday.

Posted by SteveS 2009-03-31 13:40|| 2009-03-31 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Sovereignty is not invocable where a state is harboring belligerents that act against another country. I believe that a majority of Punjabis would support US operations against Pak based Pashtuns. And the rest of the ethnics do not matter.

Posted by Jereger Hapsburg2215 2009-03-31 16:43|| 2009-03-31 16:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing will be resolved as long as there is still a "Pakistan". The United States and India need to form a joint strike command, and take out the Pakistani nukes and military. It would all be over in about two weeks, with the Pak army shredded, the US in Rawalpindi and India in Lahore. China may bitch and scream, but they're not going to go to war over Pakistan (neither will anyone else, except maybe Bangladesh, and that would be suicide). With Afghanistan (US proxy) on the west bank of the Indus and India on the right bank, a lot of long-term problems would be eliminated, including 400,000+ fake passports.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-03-31 16:44|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-03-31 16:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Good plan OP. Only problem would be the outrage over putting the entire Pak population to the sword, which exactly what would be required.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-03-31 17:17|| 2009-03-31 17:17|| Front Page Top

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