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2011-06-20 India-Pakistan

Kayani seeks to repair dented army pride

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Posted by Fred 2011-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
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#1 You gotta actually have something before you can repair it...

Posted by imoyaro 2011-06-20 01:10|| 2011-06-20 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 What's going to do---engineer another mega terror attack against India?

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-06-20 03:59|| 2011-06-20 03:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I would love to hear Mullen enumerate the national interests that justify our presence in this toilet spot.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-06-20 08:14|| 2011-06-20 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 grom, what would a terrorist outbreak prove about the strength of the Pakistani military? The terrorist proxy is a Muslim foreign-policy tool used by nations with weak and unprofessional armies who can't legitimately project power through military display or the waging of actual war. It doesn't increase or repair the prestige of said military if they use the terrorist proxy crutch *again*, whatever it does for the state proper.

No, if they want to do something active with the army, it's either a real fighting war with India - which they'd lose going away, assuming it doesn't come to a nuclear exchange - or another butcher-and-bolt campaign in the Northwest Frontier. The latter option doesn't seem particularly likely - maybe they'll gin up some sort of limited-exchange "Glacier War" with India or Afghanistan? Make faces at Karzai and IFAR? Cut off supplies to Afghanistan?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-06-20 08:32|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-06-20 08:32|| Front Page Top

grom, what would a terrorist outbreak prove about the strength of the Pakistani military?

You're not thinking like someone from the "Land of the Pure". Their martial pride is inflated by the blood of innocents, and the knowledge that their government trained the murderers.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-06-20 09:23|| 2011-06-20 09:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Look at Paleos and what they consider to be glorious victories.

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-06-20 09:25|| 2011-06-20 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 It's total casualties that count towards the win, even your own, maybe especially if they're your own. It's the Pal way.

Posted by Goldies Every Damn Where 2011-06-20 16:41|| 2011-06-20 16:41|| Front Page Top

#8 ION WAFF > OBAMA DOJ SAYS US DRONE STRIKES DON'T CONSTITUTE HOSTILE ACTS, of unilateral aggression agz the sovereignty of Pakistan.

and

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > AJAI SHUKLA: HOW LONG CAN INDIA IGNORE THE TALIBAN? | US DIALOGUE WID THE TALIBAN [Mullah Omar] IS BEING SERIOUSLY PURUED + CAPTIVATES EVERYONE WHO MATTERS, espec when it comes to Hindu India protecting its own Security from rival Muslim Pakistan's known or alleged myriad shennanigans.

IIUC ARTIC = India has a long history of prferring to make proverbial "Deals wid the Devil" [necessary evil] to protect itself as per the stability of its northern flanks, IT ONCE AGAIN MAY PROVE TO BE IN INDIA'S INTERESTS TO SUPPORT A TALIBAN-LED/DOMINATED, POST-US PULLOUT GOVT IN PAK IFF IT MEANS INDO-PAK REGIONAL PEACE + SUBORNMENT, DEFEAT BY THE TALIBAN OF THE MANY VARIOUS ANTI-INDIA, PRO-VIOLENT JIHAD MILTERR FACTIONS EXISTING WIDIN PAKISTAN???

FYI methinks KAYANI's pic is j-u-s-t begging for somoene to photoshop an Angelic Halo-Aura around his Beret.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-06-20 23:10|| 2011-06-20 23:10|| Front Page Top

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