Posted on 01/03/2009 10:56:51 PM PST by dr_who
After months of increased attacks on supply trucks, U.S. and NATO officials are scrambling for alternative routes to sustain its forces in land-locked Afghanistan. Today, three-quarters of NATO provisions bound for Afghanistan must travel through the deteriorating security environment in neighboring Pakistan. If U.S. and NATO leaders intend to establish new routes for the mission, they will have to make concessions to surrounding countries including Iran and Russia.
Militants operating in and around the Pakistani tribal region of Khyber Agency have repeatedly hijacked supply vehicles entering Afghanistan. Earlier this month, gunmen torched more than 160 vehicles near the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, the biggest assault yet on the vital military supply line. Last March, dozens of oil tankers were attacked in the tribal town of Landi Kotal. If the Pakistani supply routes are severed, Washington's options are not good.
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Meanwhile, the British forces in Kabul had capitulated, 17,000 Europeans were assured that they would receive safe passage from Afghanistan, however, once away from Kabul they were attacked, just one hundred survived to be taken prisoner and only one person, Dr. Brydon, reached Jellalabad alive.
I guess the supply route needs to be hammered through Iran.
So you’re saying, we should have sizeable armed presence in Pakistan to guard our supply lines? Is something wrong with this picture? What do you think are the chances of that happening? After all, why do so many people think that Al Qaeda is hiding in Pakistan in the first place?
You’re assuming that such a sizable armed presence of ours in Pakistan would give a squat what the locals think, once they’re taken off the “pretend we’re friends” list.
We may well be coming up to that point where there is no more value in playing the nice guy with double dealing scumbags.
Pakistan was never our friend. Pakistan was never our ally. Pakistan only cooperated as much as it did/has, because Pakistan had no real options to do otherwise. Now, Pakistan thinks it has options. Now, maybe we can break that puss pit of murder/death cult spawning degeneracy and treat them to a taste of total war.
> and treat them to a taste of total war.
That hasn’t happened since WW-II and, unless His Excellency has a few nice surprises for us up his sleeve, it ain’t going to happen again under Obama.
I think we should start mass producing the MOAB, just a thought.
Hasn’t happened because we haven’t been pushed to the point where it was required, since.
The Obamination did speak of war with Pakistan as one of his platform issues.
There is hope that that particular enemy may actually get treated as an enemy. (I mean Pakistan, not the marxist pos that the intellectual inbred sacks of leftist scum voted into office).
Theater tea leaves: The build-up in Afghanistan is the precursor to spec ops/Marines invasion of the Pak NW provinces.
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