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2011-07-04 Afghanistan

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It looks more like a logisics nightmare. The route through Pak is sure shorter than the rest of the overland routes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-04 01:04|| 2011-07-04 01:04|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder why the truck route bypasses Turmenistan? They have a rail line from the Caspian to the Afghan border. Put the trailers on flatbeds and save time and money.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-04 02:02|| 2011-07-04 02:02|| Front Page Top

#3 It is more than four times as expensive, and also more air intensive. It's not good enough for my comfort.

Will see.

Posted by newc 2011-07-04 02:07|| 2011-07-04 02:07|| Front Page Top

#4 It is more than four times as expensive

It also takes money out of Pakistani hands. Money they use to feed, raise and train jihadis. Better they spend all their time scraping a living from bare mountainsides than receiving free money from Uncle Sam.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-04 02:11|| 2011-07-04 02:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Would you have wanted to put anything under Türkmenbaşy's control?

Posted by Eric Jablow 2011-07-04 11:17|| 2011-07-04 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 That map needs to be reproduced every time there is a discussion about what to do in Afghanistan.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-07-04 13:24|| 2011-07-04 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Mistah ~~Kurtz~~ Türkmenbaşy, he dead.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-04 13:34|| 2011-07-04 13:34|| Front Page Top

#8 with nearly everything made in China can't we have them deliver directly Afghanistan?

Posted by airandee 2011-07-04 16:20|| 2011-07-04 16:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Draw a line from Spin Boldak due East to the Indian/Pakistan border. Declare everything South of that to be Afghanistan. Deport the Pakis.

Profit!

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-07-04 19:48|| 2011-07-04 19:48|| Front Page Top

#10 A large number of PAK MIL BLOGGERS/NETTERS appear to be happy of the change, + support any effort by Islamabad to close down the US Drone staging bases, stop post-Abbottabad bilateral cooperat, + just get the US out of the country.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > BEIJING SPURNED WASHINGTON'S EFFORTS TO DEVELOP ALTERNATE ROUTE FOR NATO SUPPLIES, vee transit thru China.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-04 22:06|| 2011-07-04 22:06|| Front Page Top

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