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2009-04-30 India-Pakistan

Petraeus: Next Two Weeks Critical to Pakistan's Survival

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Posted by tu3031 2009-04-30 15:48|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 No Pakistan will still exist, posibly under new managmnt (India) and wih considerably less murderous Islamic assholes, but the land will live on.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-30 16:59|| 2009-04-30 16:59|| Front Page Top

#2 So will the Democrats rehabilitate Mushareff?

Posted by DK70 the scantily clad 2009-04-30 17:02|| 2009-04-30 17:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Whats remarkable is a nuclear state is mired in a bloody civil war, it's not clear who will win and the media just ignores it.

Much easier to focus on phoney problems like AGW.

Posted by phil_b 2009-04-30 19:26|| 2009-04-30 19:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Forget about 19 people coming out of Afghanistan and taking out NYC, Pentagon, DC targets with hijacked airplanes.

With a presence in nuclear Pakistan, Al Qaeda doesn't need Afghanistan or Iraq.

1 martyre - 1 nuclear device - would wipe out the entire US Federal Government complex in DC. The White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Pentagon in one explosion.

Better get Bush ready to take it all over again if this administration doesn't get serious about Pakistan and gets its butt nuked in DC one day.

Posted by Crump Untervehr1851 2009-04-30 19:36|| 2009-04-30 19:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I'd love to see Washington under entirely new managment. but NOT by nuke,(I have Kin living in the blast area)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-30 20:06|| 2009-04-30 20:06|| Front Page Top

#6 No kin, but I like the Smithsonian and the LoC. Anybody screws with the Smithsonian or LoC, and they are dead meat. The rest, eh.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2009-04-30 20:21|| 2009-04-30 20:21|| Front Page Top

#7 ...the Taliban is not believed at present to possess the sophisticated technical expertise necessary to exercise full "command and control" over a nuclear arsenal, and would probably require weeks if not months to develop it.

Weeks or months, no problem. We have plenty of time!

Posted by Willy 2009-04-30 21:13|| 2009-04-30 21:13|| Front Page Top

#8 "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Ripley

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-04-30 22:28|| 2009-04-30 22:28|| Front Page Top

#9 One thing we could do is convince India to pull back from the border. This would allow Pakistan to move some troops from the eastern border to the west.

Posted by Keystone 2009-04-30 22:42|| 2009-04-30 22:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The Paks would get so excited by the Indian withdrawal that they would try to invade while ignoring the Taliban knife at their kidneys.

Posted by tipover 2009-04-30 23:09|| 2009-04-30 23:09|| Front Page Top

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