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2009-04-10 India-Pakistan

Zardari: 'Give us the drones and we will take out the militants ourselves'

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Posted by john frum 2009-04-10 15:48|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Sorry, boys, but if you want drones you'll have to build your own, like the Israelis. How about you send in some, y'know' soldiers and do the job the old-fashioned way?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-04-10 16:03|| 2009-04-10 16:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Zardari: 'Give us the drones and we will take out the militants ourselves'

Of course you will, Gomez. Especially all those Foreign Hand bastids in India...

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-10 16:12|| 2009-04-10 16:12|| Front Page Top

#3 How about you send in some, y'know' soldiers and do the job the old-fashioned way?

What a cruel person you are, expecting the Pakistan army to actually walk the 20 ft across the street from Frontier Corps HQ and act against Haqqani or drive the half mile from Peshawar Garrison and its 60000 troops to the Taliban training camp.

Posted by john frum 2009-04-10 16:18|| 2009-04-10 16:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Besmirching the Mighty Pak Army.
Ya oughta be ashamed, Johnny...

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-10 16:20|| 2009-04-10 16:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Pak drones come equipped with their own lashkar drums.

Posted by Seafarious 2009-04-10 16:27|| 2009-04-10 16:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I expect we'd see more drone ops in J&K than in Swat

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-04-10 16:28|| 2009-04-10 16:28|| Front Page Top

#7 These are not the drones you're looking for...

Posted by Obi-Wan Kenobi 2009-04-10 16:46|| 2009-04-10 16:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's keep things the way they now stand. If you are a Talibunny in NW Territory. ask not for whom the drone toils. It toils for thee. Kaboom! Never more will you do your evil deeds. Never more. If I were one of them, I would call the reconnisance drones "The Shadow". The Shadow knows. OK, I'm done with my punning for awhile. The drone groans can end.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-04-10 17:35|| 2009-04-10 17:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I think this could work. But with dual controls, like Drivers Ed cars. They start the mission, then it gets magically diverted to a real target, for which they get the responsibility, then we return control.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-04-10 18:18|| 2009-04-10 18:18|| Front Page Top

#10 What about all the stuff we gave them that they used against the Balochis?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-04-10 19:30|| 2009-04-10 19:30|| Front Page Top

#11 ION WORLD MILITARY FORUM [GOOGLE Chinglish tranlation] > IIUC THE USA WILL NOT INTENTIONALLY FIND, KILL OSAMA BIN LADEN BECUZ IT COVERTLY USES THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN TO CONTAIN RUSSIA AND CHINA. THE US TO DESTROY OSAMA BIN LADEN IS TO DESTROY THEIR PROXIES AL-QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-10 20:49|| 2009-04-10 20:49|| Front Page Top

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