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2008-09-29 India-Pakistan
Militants pouring in from Afghanistan: Pakistan
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Posted by tu3031 2008-09-29 09:39|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 It's going to suck worse.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-29 10:13||   2008-09-29 10:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Gee, that porous border is now a liability to the governments on both sides. What will they do? Or not do?
Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek  2008-09-29 10:37||   2008-09-29 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 The Pakistani claims are doubtful and just self serving. After downplaying the militant threat and ignoring (supporting?) it for years now they have to explain the militants strength and armnament.

Rather than admit that the militants were there all along, and growing stronger, they claim that it is from Afghanistan.
Posted by DoDo 2008-09-29 10:50||   2008-09-29 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought that it was just the terrorists demonstrating osmosis, flow from the higher concentration to the lower concentration.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2008-09-29 11:01||   2008-09-29 11:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I think they are running home to mama. There were always large bases of support and men in Pakistan, but the fighters are getting their butts kicked in Afghanistan and are coming home.
Posted by DarthVader 2008-09-29 11:28||   2008-09-29 11:28|| Front Page Top

#6 If they're running for home, all that remains for us to do is persuade the farmers to switch permanently to wheat and other food crops, right?

/yes, I know, but it's such a nice idea.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-09-29 12:19||   2008-09-29 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 TW - fungus or virus would do the job if state would show some guts.
Posted by 3dc 2008-09-29 12:44||   2008-09-29 12:44|| Front Page Top

#8 "Party at Blinky's Place!"
Posted by mojo">mojo  2008-09-29 12:50||   2008-09-29 12:50|| Front Page Top

#9 ...or genetically altered locust that are born addicts, a nice cover since locust are native to the area.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-09-29 13:08||   2008-09-29 13:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Do NOT confuse the US State Department in any way with "courage" or "strength". State has been a bad dream ever since the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2008-09-29 13:42|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2008-09-29 13:42|| Front Page Top

#11 DOS has been a hot bed of lefties and Trotskyites for as long as Karl Marx's rags have been in print....maybe even back to Hegel.

They really need to just fire everyone down in Foggy Bottom and start over.

Actually I think there are more moles at DOS than there are at the CIA.
Posted by James Carville 2008-09-29 13:46||   2008-09-29 13:46|| Front Page Top

#12 NATO and the Pak army have probably gone to great lengths to make this happen. Having your enemy reinforcing a bad defeat is an optimal situation for you. It won't turn the situation around for the enemy, but will make them expend resources at a huge rate.

It turns losing a battle into losing a war. The Pak army gets to slaughter them, then the losers run headlong into NATO in a disarrayed retreat.
Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-29 14:00||   2008-09-29 14:00|| Front Page Top

#13 If Taliban are coming over from Afghanistan, they are merely protecting their ammo dumps and supply lines, which are in Pakistan. Can't fight without weapons or bullets, which don't grow on trees, and certainly originate in Pakistan.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-09-29 14:51|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2008-09-29 14:51|| Front Page Top

#14 BO in all his naivete said he will go into Pakistan in one of his speeches. Does he realize that Pakistan is a country of 180,000 people? The population of Nazi Germany was about 80 million in 1939. The last thing we want to do is get bogged down in a land war in Pakistan. There are better ways to address the problems in Pakiland. McCain needs to lay this out.
Posted by JohnQC 2008-09-29 15:24||   2008-09-29 15:24|| Front Page Top

#15 IIRC there are slightly more Pakistanis in Pakistan than Russians in Russia.
Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-29 15:33||   2008-09-29 15:33|| Front Page Top

#16 Pakistan has more exciting mountain ranges than Germany, too. ;-) But that's geography, and so beyond Candidate Obama's purview.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2008-09-29 15:38||   2008-09-29 15:38|| Front Page Top

#17 Re: #14

I think Obama *should* go to Pakistan. Whether he takes the Army with him is another question entirely.
Posted by SteveS 2008-09-29 19:28||   2008-09-29 19:28|| Front Page Top

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