Of all the probs from Hello that confront 44's team of rivals, Land of the Pure is surely at the top of the list. Of all the most, uh, complicated issues of import, Great Satan's only client new clear army (with a nation/state attached) totally puts the PAK in AFPAK.
While 44's War often conjures nation/state nomenclature like - Afghanistan - all the cool kids knew eons ago that the Stan was about as good as it's gonna get unless certain elements are tended to in wild wack Waziristan (the yankee part)
"...Every passing day, it seems to apply equally to the conflict in next-door Pakistan. U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas are escalating, partly in response to reports that al Qaeda-linked militants there might be planning terror attacks in Europe and the U.S. Afghanistan-based NATO helicopters also recently mounted an unusual cross-border raid, mowing down dozens of militants (and leaving Pakistan's government fuming about its violated sovereignty).
Pic - "Courtney, if they've actually moved heavy weight SAMs to the border, then they are now in a position to interdict all US air traffic from the Arabian Sea"
Pic - "Courtney, if they've actually moved heavy weight SAMs to the border, then they are now in a position to interdict all US air traffic from the Arabian Sea"
I wish I were real smart like those Washington, DC types. Then might understand how the Hell we let Pakistan, North Korea and, soon, Iran have nukes.
ReplyDeleteI'm just a pore dumb redneck but I never understood letting enemies arm up before they get around to attacking. It never works. We did it with Germany and Japan during the 1930s. It worked so well. Seems there ought to be craters, some glowing blue in the dark.
Ah, what do I know. The smart people think, I get to wait for those creeps to kill my grandchildren. Too bad I'm not smart.
Dude, anyone can have nukes. Warheads are easy. That's why Pak, India, NK and Israel have them. Long-range delivery systems, pref a MIRV, that's the hard part. The real hard part, because if you're a rogue state, you only get one chance to test them, and they better work perfectly. Better have a few thousand ready to go, too. Stanislav Petrov can tell you that from the time he saved the world in 1983.
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