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| US Army general warns Pakistan of new war | |
| 2008-09-15 | |
A new war could begin if Pakistan does not step up its fight against terrorists, Maj Gen Jeffrey J Schloesser of the US Army said in a report published in an American weekly on Sunday.
According to the report, Gen Schloesser, who leads 19,000 US soldiers operating on the frontier, estimates that his forces are facing some 7,000-10,000 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan -- a higher number than previously disclosed by any US commander. He said he planned to keep his troops operating deep inside Taliban territory this winter. He hoped they would be able to take advantage of the mobility to seek out any safe havens and facilitation areas and any places the terrorists can go for 'rest and recreation' in Afghanistan. He said he would give terrorists the options to flee, get killed or captured, or reconcile. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Old Patriot, why not arclight a few hundred trails and make them useless, the remaining ones can be mined. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-15 22:37 |
| #6 The MSM-Net is already comparing the new US brouhaha wid PAKISTAN = NIXON's INVASION OF CAMBODIA. Unfortunantely for the US-Allies, IT IS A "NEW WAR" [just not only agz Pakland] > THE US IS NOW IN A NEW BROAD WAR AGZ RADICAL ISLAM FOR CONTROL AND DOMINATION OF ASIAN MAINLAND PROPER + ANY PERIPHERAL/LITTORAL AREAS. *WHY, YOU SAY, BECUZ RADICAL ISLAM IS THATS WHY! *IRNA > STUDY: WESTERN ASIA IS NOT DOING ENOUGH TO FIGHT EXTREME POVERTY; + WAFF.com > RUSSIA TO INVESTIGATE CAUSES OF "MYSTERIOUS" AIR CRASH + SUN.uk > RADICAL MUSLIM LAWYER: WE NEED MORE BABIES ... THEN WE CAN TAKE OVER GREAT BRITAIN. Article - There may be aproxi SIX MILYUHN MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN, NOT 1.5MILYUHN from TEN YEARS AGO as estim by London + 500 PEOPLE IN BRIT BECOME MUSLIM EVERY DAY. Also, although it would be relatively easy for Brit's large numbers of Muslims to declare JIHAD in Brit it may NOT be needed/necessary for Islam/Islamism to do so nor to militarily conquer Great Britain as the local HIGH + ESCALATING BRIT MUSLIM BIRTH RATE will induce a 'peaceful" demographic-based domestic takeover of Brit Govt. + Culture-Society anyways. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-09-15 21:54 |
| #5 RJ, we KNOW where the crossings are. Unfortunately, there are between 3000 and 5000 of them, and we don't have the manpower to watch all of them all the time. Also, this is REALLY rugged terrain - some of it Class 2 or Class 3 climbing. There are LOTS of big rocks, plenty of caves, and other difficulties. Closing the border would probably take close to ten divisions. It's NOT an easy thing to do. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-09-15 15:33 |
| #4 I still don't understand why we can't seal the border tight. I know it's long and rugged but there are only so many navigable roads and paths and they aren't hidden beneath triple canopy jungle. We should have those mostly mapped out by now. We should declare a free-fire zone in the areas near the border and drop snipers and/or spotters around looking for those crossing to and fro. We should mine Tora Bora and then advertise that we've abandoned that area and hope they move back in than blast the place. We should allow a shipment of weapons, or drugs, to get stolen, only put some kind of GPS tracking device so we can follow the shipment and track the paths and roads used. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-09-15 14:22 |
| #3 Sounds like they aren't willing to let another Cambodia/Vietnam type border war fester anymore. You don't clean up your act, we will clean it up for you and it won't be gentle. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-09-15 11:03 |
| #2 Raise my taxes. Let's put about 300 predators there and blast everything when it comes across the border. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2008-09-15 02:13 |
| #1 Maybe Bush told Petraeus the same thing he told him about Iraq, "Go win this thing." |
| Posted by: Sherry 2008-09-15 00:44 |