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2008-09-25 India-Pakistan

Pakistan faces 'existential threat': Petraeus

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Posted by tu3031 2008-09-25 15:50|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 it's hard too work with someone who is also backing your enemy

Posted by sinse 2008-09-25 17:40|| 2008-09-25 17:40|| Front Page Top

#2 the army has vowed to defend its sovereignty

Which has ever been a major problem -- it being the sovereignty of the Army of the Pure that matters, not that of the Country of the Pure.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-09-25 18:10|| 2008-09-25 18:10|| Front Page Top

#3 POST-GEORGIA > the US-Allies is now in new war agz Radical Islam for the de facto control and domination of mainland Asia and any peripheral areas.

JAN 2009 + POST-DUBYA POTUS PERIOD > as long as the US, etc. keeps itself to IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN, or even redux, RADICLA ISLAMISM INTENDS TO RAMPAGE, DESTABILIZE, AND EMPOWER OR ESTABLISH PRO-ISLAMIST ARMED ENCLAVES, POLITICAL ORGS AND LOCAL NETWORKS AMAP THROUGHOUT ASIA. It desires not only to rebuild and recoup its Manpower, $$$ and Materiel losses from fighting the US-Allies, but also to "hedge" and increase its odds of successfully going NUCLEAR EVEN IFF IRAN, ETC GETS ATTACKED AND INVADED BY THE US = US-ALLIES.

As RUSH LIMBAUGH once labeled, LE QUESTIONNE > WILL THE VARIOUS NATION-STATES OF ASIA, ESPEC BIGGIES RUSSIA + CHINA + INDIA + JAPAN, TOLERATE OR ACCEPT LOCAL-REGIONAL US INTERVENTION, DOMINATION AND CONTROL TO PROTECT AGZ RADICAL ISLAM???

Lest we fergit, MAD/RADICAL MULLAHS > ENVIRO-RESOURCE CRISES, GREAT POWERS MILPOL CONFRONTATIONISM, + EVEN MUTUAL DESTRUCTION, ETC. ANARCHIES AND CHAOSES, IS TO ISLAM'S = ISLAMISM'S ADVANTAGE.

More popularly known as IFF WE DON'T GET OUR WAY OR WE DON'T RULE, NOBODY ELSE WILL!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-25 22:39|| 2008-09-25 22:39|| Front Page Top

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