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2007-12-29 India-Pakistan

Sindh Rangers given shoot-at-sight orders

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Posted by Fred 2007-12-29 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top
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#1 Civil War?

Posted by Gromort Trotsky5960 2007-12-29 00:32|| 2007-12-29 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Peccavi.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-12-29 02:16|| 2007-12-29 02:16|| Front Page Top

#3 There were -- until yesterday, at least -- one each KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in Karachi? When did that happen, and why?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-29 06:03|| 2007-12-29 06:03|| Front Page Top

#4 I had to look that up. Shame on you, Eric, for a really good bilingual pun! :-D

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-29 06:31|| 2007-12-29 06:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The KFC is routinely burned down during protests

Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 06:43|| 2007-12-29 06:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Reports from Benazir's funeral mention a lot of anti-Punjabi sentiment. The PPP is one of the last links the Sindhis have with Pakistan. As it disintegrates, Sindhi separatist sentiments will also grow...

Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 06:45|| 2007-12-29 06:45|| Front Page Top

#7 The KFC is routinely burned down during protests...

Maybe they should rename it to Osmama's Mama's Home Fried Chicken, and put a picture up of a MBO. Just sayin'.

Posted by Slinemble Jones4087 2007-12-29 06:56|| 2007-12-29 06:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Cr@p! Osmama's = Osama's

Posted by Slinemble Jones4087 2007-12-29 06:57|| 2007-12-29 06:57|| Front Page Top

#9 If you build it, they will come....

and burn it to the ground.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-12-29 07:31|| 2007-12-29 07:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Colonel Sanders Under Fiery Siege in Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan, June 3 2005- Four times since Pakistan allied itself with the United States campaign against terrorism, a KFC outlet here has been attacked. Each time, the owner, Rafiq Rangoonwala, dutifully cleaned up and reopened for business. This time, with six of his employees dead, he's not so sure.

May 2005

Aug 2003

may 2005

Nov 2005

June 2005

Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 07:52|| 2007-12-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#11 TW, it wasn't my pun. That's how General Charles Napier reported his conquest of Sind to the British East India Company in 1842.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-12-29 08:54|| 2007-12-29 08:54|| Front Page Top

#12 They probably think Sanders is a colonel in the US Army.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-12-29 09:08|| 2007-12-29 09:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Or Kentucky is Dar-Ul-Islam ?

Posted by john frum 2007-12-29 10:10|| 2007-12-29 10:10|| Front Page Top

#14 A historic bilingual pun? How utterly wonderful! Are there any more of those?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-29 11:18|| 2007-12-29 11:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Peccavi. A sailor might say I'm impressed.

Posted by Seafarious 2007-12-29 11:35|| 2007-12-29 11:35|| Front Page Top

#16 A sailor might merit flogging as punishment, especially when even his user name qualifies.

Posted by Odysseus 2007-12-29 13:50|| 2007-12-29 13:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Eric you and the Colonel started something finger licking good! and thank you TW and EM for the delightful and extra crispy pun woid & links..

The fighting in the 1840's was at a time of British expansion in India. Nevertheless, there were those in Britain who doubted the wisdom of too rapid an advance, and in particular, the capture of the province of Sind, which was thought likely to lead to an overextension of lines of communication. Napier was therefore under express orders not to capture the territory. Once he discovered, however, how little resistance there was, he took the province with ease. ''Peccavi'' therefore meant both ''I have Sind,'' and ''I have sinned'' - perhaps a perfect pun.
~:)
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RBees know the following to be true today as well as yester year. In wars we are perpetually handcuffed by our own Liberal Ideals. Once our sons and daughters are fighting Our Nation should always be ready to use absolute brutal force in any conflict inorder to save their lives in the long run...but [I know 'the wag' will point out they are expendable to National Interest. ignore] ~:)

In WaZooStan for instance, Our Brave and Superb Warriors hump the wadis and rugged mountains, very skillfully surrounding and killing hundreds of very wily Talibs every month.

But in spite of our men and women's tremendous achievements the scale of their actions will NEVER keep up with WaZooStan's deep supply of Jihadis or be able to cut off the Talib's Cash Crop, IOW Never get her done.

General Sir Charles James Napier:
General Napier put down several insurgencies in India during his reign as Commander-in-Chief in India, and once said of his philosophy about how to do so effectively:

"The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed"[3]
He also once said that "the human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear"[3]

An implementation of this theory would be after the Battle of Miani, where most of the Mirs surrendered. One leader held back and was told by Napier:

"Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you""[3]
The reason he felt brutality was necessary for the proper conquest of rebellions may have been his opinion that "so perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another"[3] Whatever the reason for his views on fighting insurgencies, the fact remains that he was one of Great Britain's most effective generals at doing this in India, often facing well-armed fighters

Posted by RD">RD 2007-12-29 15:14|| 2007-12-29 15:14|| Front Page Top

#18 plz permit this addition,

Once our sons and daughters are fighting Our Nation should always be ready to use absolute brutal force in any conflict inorder to save their lives in the long run.

and in the long run of it, save the families [wives and children] of our enemies also.. [that damn liberalism again!]

Posted by RD">RD 2007-12-29 15:24|| 2007-12-29 15:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Should have done that with the wankers in New Orleans

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-12-29 17:12|| http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm]">[http://coonlakebeach.com/support_mn_troops.htm] 2007-12-29 17:12|| Front Page Top

#20 yeah, but then you'd have the NO police shooting at each other. Then what?

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-29 17:14|| 2007-12-29 17:14|| Front Page Top

#21 I can't see that it would make any difference, WG - except they would have been too busy to illegally steal self-defense weapons from law-abiding citizens.

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