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2007-03-03 India-Pakistan

Pakistan rejects US authority to cross its border

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Posted by John Frum 2007-03-03 10:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We asked? why bother?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-03-03 14:16|| 2007-03-03 14:16|| Front Page Top

#2 seems to me, Pakland, that if you cede control of your formerly sovereign territory to ~~Taliban~~ Tribes, that the Tribes are the only ones that can complain if we respond to their attacks. They can leave a comment card in the DOD customer service office

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-03-03 14:38|| 2007-03-03 14:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Pakistan objects to our crossing the border like they deny there are Taliban there in the first place. It is pro forma, and nobody takes it seriously.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-03 15:08|| 2007-03-03 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 No one is permitted to cross our territorial borders

Unless they're brave jihadis crossing into Afghanistan to fight infidels.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-03 15:12|| 2007-03-03 15:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I hope nobody tells the pakis that it doesn't matter what they authorize if POTUS says the military can go into pakland.

Posted by Mike N. 2007-03-03 16:52|| 2007-03-03 16:52|| Front Page Top

#6 Screw them. Any military force has the inalienable right to retaliate against attackers and military planners, anywhere. International law permits hot pursuit operations. And given that pre-emption is central to US military doctrine, I would condone destruction of any financial or training facility from which beligerents are either paid or directed. The real problem for Mushy is: maintenance of Punjab domination over Pakistan minorities. He allows terror because doing so directs ethnic hostility against third parties. In retrospect - and it is Monday morning quarterbacking - it would have better to bomb the Pashto menace to charcoal, from the North and support an indigenous Northern Alliance takeover. Neither relations with Pakistan nor the beligerent armistice has served US security. Scorched earth is a viable option in face of neverending subsidized Paki interference, and Kharzai (a Pashto) brinkmanship.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-03 18:13|| 2007-03-03 18:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey Pppervvvv. Better get your act together or we may "pursue" some of these "Taliban" all the way to ISI headquarters. And there's no guarantee we'll feel like stopping there.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-03-03 20:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-03-03 20:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Something tells me that this may very well be scripted; first the VP 'drops in' on Perv to 'discuss' things and now we have a heavy hitter in uniform saying that we are not gonna stop just cuz the map changes color form blue to green ( or whatever). This should get some Pakiturbans well wound deciding how to deal with this 'threat.' And it would be doubly interesting to see what the consequences are when (not if) our guys do go into Pakland. Seems there is another article posted here that showed nothing happened when some Afghan troops fired across the border.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-03-03 21:47|| 2007-03-03 21:47|| Front Page Top

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