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2009-10-15 India-Pakistan

More troops, tanks move into Waziristan, 10 Taliban killed

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Posted by Steve White 2009-10-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Something big is gonna happen really soon the hornet nest is very close.I wish the PAK Army the best I F#C)$^*$ HOPE OBL IS AROUND WHEN THE SH*T GOES DOWN. All while a MQ-9 Reaper
pet the Taliban and al-Qaeda right on Head. Hmmm
Wonder why is was so HARD to get them to go all out like this before (cough)BUSH

GRAB YA POPCORN HATERS EVEN YALL GONNA LOVE THIS MOVIE.

Posted by play4keeps 2009-10-15 06:09|| 2009-10-15 06:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Golly, play4keeps, you sure are awfully energetic for 3:00 in the morning in your part of the world. We can indeed hope the mighty Pakistani army is finally taking all the hatred turned against them very personally for a change, given they were perfectly content to ignore the same threat to the civilian population of Pakistan until it was well established a mere 60 miles from the nation's capitol-- do remember they (in the form of the ISI, through whose ranks much of the officer corps has passed, at one point or another) created quite a few of the groups they are now fighting. But to be perfectly honest, my dear, you do your cause no good by hearkening back to the man who has been out of office for the better part of a year. Even PBS has moved on -- did you see the Frontline special, "Obama's War"? The Washington Post has an interview with the producer you'll find useful, with a link to the film, if you missed it. And do remember, my dear, that although Western journalists are likely to refer to all the terror groups as "Taliban", there are Taliban groups (generally Punjabi) that aim at the conquest of Pakistan proper, with its sprawling cities, cultivated landscape, and nuclear bombs -- of interest to the Pakistan army and authorities -- and there are Taliban groups (generally Pashtun/Pakhton) that aim to reconquer Afghanistan -- of interest to the US-led alliance fighting in Afghanistan, but supported even yet by the Pakistani army as fulfilling their own aims to control Afghanistan as the Pakistani hinterland.

So things are a bit more complicated than they appear on the surface.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-10-15 07:12|| 2009-10-15 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder why is was so HARD to get them to go all out like this before (cough)BUSH

Because the Pakistanis' pets slipped their leash?

Or maybe because there's an aid-package in the works for Pakistan, and it's not going to be a walk-through on the vote?

Posted by Pappy 2009-10-15 21:23|| 2009-10-15 21:23|| Front Page Top

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