when troops started arriving

I guess the troops called ahead or didn’t form up correctly or showed up in groups of two.

Some army.

What’s the difference? Hussein Obama will not take any action, claiming that part of the world needs to deal with its own problems.

He will tell you he needs more intelligence and you’ll never hear it mentioned until the situation gets much worse. Then he will probably blame Bush and raise taxes.

If the democratically elected government wants to resolve the conflict by recruiting locals in the tribal areas to free themselves by doing the fighting, they need to give them better protection until they have the numbers, training, weapons and experience to be successful. Then they will have to convince the citizenry that they can and will protect them if they turn on the Taliban and foreign fighters that oppress them and recruit their children to go to useless deaths.

Intelligence is essential to winning such a fight and the best intellegence comes from a sympathetic population that feels safe enough to rat out the bad guys. That means you must have enough force to protect areas once you clear them of Taliban control. That means the Pakistani army must help do the clearing and provide air support for the local forces that hold the areas as well as quick reinforcement capability when Taliban forces threaten.

If the Pakistani army and frontier forces cannot do this throughout the frontier, then it will have to do in in small areas first and expand the areas as their capabilities grow. But attacking, then leaving and allowing those people who sided with the government to get their heads cut off when the Taliban come back, will not work. We proved that in 2004,2005 and 2006 in Iraq. In 2007 we changed tactics and won.

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Funny, I thought Hussein promised to send troops into Pakistan (in fact, an invasion)?

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

400 Taliban lay siege to Pakistani police station

To the Pakistan military, TAKE NO PRISONERS!

Pakistan recently began pushing back against the Taliban, or at least some if the Taliban elements, due to a rising threat to Peshawar.

The half hearted ‘push back’ according to most sources is just an international show so that they can get US money. The problem is that the new government isn’t as adept as Musharraf in making it look real. The longer we consider Pakistan an ally, and the longer we give them credit for participating in war games masquerading as actual war, the longer it will be before we begin to address the real problem. Pakistan is THE enemy. The US should be fighting against PAKISTAN, not Afghanistan or Iraq.

The region will never be stable as long as we expect Pakistan to fight our wars for us. If we went in from India and attacked Pakistan and Afghanistan at the same time, we would have been able to pull up the weed from the root. Instead by going into Afghanistan, we were able to pluck off the leaves of the weed, but it is growing back as we could not get the roots in Pakistan.

We should cut off military aid to that country now.

longwarjournal.com

They are a consortium of military imbeds. They have been predicting this situation in Pakistan for a long time.

I heard the US has something to do with securing their nukes. We’d better.

Coming soon… a new map sans Israel, courtesy of the DNC.

A military that has nukes.

Why doesn’t that give me a warm and fuzzy feeling?

I assume that somewhere in the Koran there is a rule about nuking one’s brothers. No virgins for you on the Afterlife. You get Maddie Albright clones.

What’s the formula for Predators + Hellfires needed to reduce 400 Talibs to 20?

Otherwise, the next city to get besieged may be Islamabad, and it will involve a lot more than 400 terrorists.

There’s a highway running from Kabul to Islamabad. Hopefully that will help Nato troops to quickly enter Pakistan if necessary.

Weird. Been trying over an hour. Only site that won’t load.

Sounds like red on red “HUDNA” to me. Both sides pretending to be making peace, while gathering strength for another attack. You’d think muslims would not be fooled by their own trick by other muslims.

OT: anyone else having trouble with ABC on the net this morning? – Limey

No sir, ABC comes in loud and clear.

Hopefully, the new Pakistani government has learned its lesson.

Oh, they’ve learned, alright. They’ve just signed another peace agreement with the very people they’re supposed to be “on the offensive” against.

The Pakistani government and military are feckless in this situation.What evidence have they ever shown to do more than make meaningless gestures against the Taliban?

A military that has nukes.

Why doesn’t that give me a warm and fuzzy feeling?

OT: anyone else having trouble with ABC on the net this morning?

Only here, gunslingers with Colt-45s out to rob the train have been replaced with psychos armed with RPGs out to nuke civilization.

And guess who’s the sheriff without a posse?

THEY’RE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!