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2007-07-02 Afghanistan

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Posted by Sherry 2007-07-02 14:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
File under: Taliban

#1 Yeah, I'll believe it when the JDAMs start falling.

Posted by danking_70 2007-07-02 14:54|| 2007-07-02 14:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Nuke the border from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-07-02 15:07|| 2007-07-02 15:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Okay. Just let us know where you want it.

Posted by Halliburton: Earthquake/Tsunami Division 2007-07-02 15:14|| 2007-07-02 15:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Where's the fence?

/various mullahs

Posted by Excalibur 2007-07-02 15:31|| 2007-07-02 15:31|| Front Page Top

#5 All these pro-Taliban/al-Qaeda zones on the Afghan border have connections with the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) in Islamabad, run by outspoken brothers Maulana Abdul Aziz and Ghazi Abdul Rasheed. The brothers are openly pro-Taliban and also run large Islamic seminaries for boys and girls.

Yet no one can bring themselves to cap these two turds. Targeted killings of Islam's clerical elite are vital if we're ever to win this battle. As to US ops in Pakistan, it's about time. They should have been happening from the moment we landed in Afghnistan.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-02 15:43|| 2007-07-02 15:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like a trap to me. Get the US over the (Nonexistent) border and show "All the EEEEvil 'Mercans invading.

Step carefully troopies, shoot first and often.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-07-02 16:05|| 2007-07-02 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Best Taliban hunting within Pakistan is within the ISI.

Posted by mhw 2007-07-02 16:21|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-02 16:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Remember that everything that happens there is based in lies and treachery, and that the only currency is to extend your power or diminish that of your enemies.

So no matter what is said, what matters is what is done. But even then, be careful in assuming that the reason something is being done is actually what is given as the reason.

In this case, Perv could have simply let his subordinates know that NATO would be on their turf and not to shoot at them, discreetly.

He could have denied that they crossed or did anything in Pakistan. Or everything that NATO did, he could claim his army did.

He could have created a major distraction somewhere else in the country, so that any NATO actions would be less noticeable.

Or he could have loudly protested any NATO entry, using it as an excuse to send the Pak army there to prevent it (having the army overrun and attack the extremists "to protect them".)

There are any number of gambits he could have, and probably has done. So why this one? What's his angle? Assume the worst.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-02 16:21|| 2007-07-02 16:21|| Front Page Top

#9 SHHHH! Be vewy, vewy quiet! We're hunting Talibunnies!

Posted by Elmer Fudd">Elmer Fudd 2007-07-02 16:31|| 2007-07-02 16:31|| Front Page Top

#10 How much of this has to do, with Bush out in about 18 months, Perv, with the Demos in the WH, probably will lose the backing of the United States, and probably get overrun by the crazies.

He may be betting that we can take out that cancer in his corner before Bush leaves. Regardless, there's lots of nukes that need to be kept out of certain hands.

Posted by Sherry 2007-07-02 17:32|| 2007-07-02 17:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Best Taliban hunting within Pakistan is within the ISI.

End of story.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-02 18:30|| 2007-07-02 18:30|| Front Page Top

#12 In the 1880s it was the US Army, the Apache, and the Mexican border. The US finally got tired of the Mexican government [even then] refusing to control their border and subsequently launch raids into the safe areas of the Apache in Mexico. Of course the Mexican government protested. Enough pressure in intercepting and pursuing the Apache raiding parties on the American side of the border resulted in the Apaches turning on easier game in Mexico, finally forcing Mexico City to finally take action.

The most of the players have changed but the story line remains the same. Funny and sad at the same time.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-07-02 21:32|| 2007-07-02 21:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Cheney's office is believed to run the United States' Pakistan policy.

Right. an indicator of the credibility of the balance of the article.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-07-02 21:59|| 2007-07-02 21:59|| Front Page Top

#14 "Cheney's office is believed to run the United States' Pakistan policy."

We can but hope....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-07-02 22:10|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-07-02 22:10|| Front Page Top

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