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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?

Our forces in Afghanistan are in a very precarious position. Being caught in a vice between China and Russia. China's puppet in the region is Pakistan. Russia's puppet in the region is Iran. The population of Pakistan is too large for the US to control or take on without a draft. About 5 to 6 times larger then Iraq. And obviously when Iran goes Nuclear, we wont be able to take either one of them on without endangering the region to nuclear retaliation. Being caught between the Nuclear Armed Islamist Chinese Puppet Pakistan and the Nuclear Armed Islamist Russian Puppet Iran, without a major supply line, is a nightmare scenario that Obama will embrace fully. My guess is he will surge NATO and US into Afghanistan, negotiate some alternative supply route and when the time is ripe, that alternative supply route will also be closed. Thus, the Russians and Chinese will have effectively cutoff 60-80 thousand NATO troops (after the surge). Those troops would have to fight their way out through either Iran or Pakistan. And you need to check out the terrain in this region on Google Earth to see how impossible that would be.

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.

We could if we chose to. It would not take much to embed a squad or 2 with each convoy. The Taliban and tribal folk tend to succeed at this because the guards on the convoys run instead of fight. A squad or two, backed by air assets, would have no problem dealing with the raiding parties. That said however, we are negotiating with the Russians to secure a northern resupply route. Assuming that happens, the Taliban will have to find another way to interdict us. I doubt the Russians and their client ‘Stans will tolerate it.