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2007-07-26 India-Pakistan

Bring 'em on: Militants in Pakistan await US

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Posted by tipper 2007-07-26 21:28|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
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#1 Guess they have not heard of MOAB-brand tenderizer?

Posted by OyVey1 2007-07-26 21:54|| 2007-07-26 21:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Apparently the Wazoo Air Force is more formidable than we thought?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-07-26 21:57|| 2007-07-26 21:57|| Front Page Top

#3 An oddly balanced report considering it's the Asia Times.....

Posted by Gerthudion Choper6698 2007-07-26 22:08|| 2007-07-26 22:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Not the brightest bulbs in the package. Wazoo sounds like a marvelous...simply marvelous...place to try out that new bunker buster they have for the B-2.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-07-26 22:29|| http://theworldsworstblog-really.blogspot.com/]">[http://theworldsworstblog-really.blogspot.com/] 2007-07-26 22:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm more inclined to think that a few MLRS rockets full of cluster munitions would really do wonders.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-07-26 22:43|| 2007-07-26 22:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Guys, that is some horrible country to operate in. No roads for vehicles and much of it above the ceiling for helicopters. The Army would need alpacas or llamas to hump supplies into that country and attack some of those hideouts. Our vehicles, UAVs and helicopters would be useless up there.

I don't think people appreciate exactly how rugged that terrain is. We are talking Himalayas folks. And most of the routes though the rugged country are going to begin closing in 30 to 45 days as the snows come. We are talking about a mountain range with some PASSES at 10,000 feet.

We would need specially trained mountain troops using pack animals hauling their own feed in addition to any ammunition and other supplies and there would be no chance of medevac or even attack helicopter support in the most rugged areas. Operations in some of the isolated valleys in winter would be nearly impossible as we wouldn't be able to get troops into them save paratroops and then we would still have no way to evacuate wounded.

It is some hellish terrain and conditions would be very primitive. I am not sure we have a lot of troops trained to operate in conditions like that.

Posted by crosspatch 2007-07-26 22:58|| 2007-07-26 22:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I have little interest in invading Pakistan or Iran, but neither country can be allowed to be a safe harbor. Bomb and ambush AQ where they think they are safe. Don't invade the joint - then we have to make the toilets work.

Posted by Super Hose 2007-07-26 23:12|| 2007-07-26 23:12|| Front Page Top

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