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Officials: NATO Clashes With Pakistani Troops
CNN ^ | May 17, 2011

Posted on 05/17/2011 6:46:04 AM PDT by Strategy

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) - A NATO jet and helicopters entered Pakistani airspace Tuesday starting an exchange of gunfire between coalition and Pakistani forces, Pakistani officials said.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: nato; obama; pakistan
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To: joe fonebone

Just how far is Pakiland from the NORTH ATLANTIC? I gotta get a bigger map.


41 posted on 05/17/2011 11:11:11 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Strategy

So it begins.

How long before Iranian missiles from Venezuela are raining down on the US Gulf Coast?


42 posted on 05/17/2011 11:48:45 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: PzLdr
They were not, but that's what the US would like to believe because they made the wrong choice and are unable to reverse it.
43 posted on 05/17/2011 11:55:32 AM PDT by ravager
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To: Lazamataz
Simple geography. If Afghanistan and India shared a controlled, undisputed border, you can bet we would much rather be dealing with them. Unfortunately were we to insist that India and Afghanistan share a border; essentially awarding the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir to India, it would likely trigger a war between Pakistan and India, and the last thing we need is to be in the middle of a war between bitter nuclear neighbors.

Personally I think those provinces belong to India, not the breakaway Pakistan, but when you're trying to resupply troops in an entirely different nation, it's not the time to argue it. We're dealing with Pakistan because we have to; it's the simplest logistical solution.

That said, the real problem with Afghanistan continues to be Pakistan. Were it not for Pakistan, there would likely have never been a Taliban in the first place and without their continuing support, the resistance couldn't not exist now. It makes the long term prospects for victory in Afghanistan (at least as defined in terms of the absence of the Taliban) as highly problematic. Our enemies there are no more isolated than were the Viet Cong; they're being supplied and supported from nations with whom we cannot grapple militarily.

44 posted on 05/17/2011 11:58:54 AM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: Lazamataz

BEcause we prefer muslims. We are either muslims ourselves, muslim sympathizers, or afraid of them. Muslim culture gave us the zero, so lets embrace it.

This is sooo typical and reminds me of when I was a kid in the 60s and couldn’t figure out why everybody, all the people in the country loved Israel, but the government was hostile toward them. (Then it was because they were socialist, now it’s because we’re kuffir.)


45 posted on 05/17/2011 12:40:31 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Strategy

Times up, Pakistan. You’re done. You just don’t know it yet, but you soon will.


46 posted on 05/17/2011 12:42:51 PM PDT by quesney
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To: rlmorel

Going in without permission, right in the heart of their military complex, under their military’s noses, if you will, and shooting Bin Ladin dead and snatching his body was a national embarrassment to the Pakis so great that I can’t even think of an analogy. We MADE THEM OUR BITCH by doing that and they’re rightly pissed. It was an Act of War, a Violation of Their National Sovereignty. They would be within their rights to throw every damn American out of their country over it, and block our access to supply routes into the stan.

So, a little chest beating, a little gunfire is to be expected for a while. I’d be damn careful if I were a yank working around there.


47 posted on 05/17/2011 12:44:51 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: DAC21
No report of anyone hurt. Phony setup to sell to the the Paki Sheeple

NATO choppers injure Pakistani soldiers

48 posted on 05/17/2011 12:46:41 PM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Lazamataz

49 posted on 05/17/2011 12:48:03 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ichabod1

BTTT


50 posted on 05/17/2011 12:48:49 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: AU72

“What happened to ‘You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists’?”

We elected a terrorist buddy to be president.


51 posted on 05/17/2011 1:10:18 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Strategy

Hmmm what happened to that Kinetic Libya humatitarian billion dollar debacle? Obama can and should be tried for treason, for racism, sacrificed on the altar of everything SANE, and impeached for being stuipid, and, and, and a commie-closet-muzzie-black-liberation-narcissistic-personality-trans-muttist-agenda. Okay, I need to work on some new dictionary words, I just can not find “ Pahkeestahn on the map. Please India kill these folks. Russia? Anyone?


52 posted on 05/17/2011 1:13:33 PM PDT by Karliner (Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
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To: DAC21

“Call me a skeptic. No report of anyone hurt.”

And right after Kerry “I served in Vietnam” left, Hmmm.

And the OBL Op was just after Beohner’s visit. Hmmm.


53 posted on 05/17/2011 1:27:18 PM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
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To: americanophile

And also, there are many that support us there... unfortunately there are too many that do not support us.


54 posted on 05/17/2011 1:54:28 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
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To: Never on my watch

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.


55 posted on 05/17/2011 2:00:02 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (How much longer can the charade last?)
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To: AU72
What happened to ‘You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists’?

Ask Momar Qadaffi

56 posted on 05/17/2011 2:03:45 PM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: Strategy

So now we have four hot wars, and one brewing to the south.

Students in military schools of the future will mock us.


57 posted on 05/17/2011 2:13:12 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum
Students in military indoctrination schools of the future will mock us.

FIFY

58 posted on 05/17/2011 2:15:17 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (How much longer can the charade last?)
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To: Drill Thrawl

Now nobama is the war monger president. Perhaps unfortunately he is the feckless, incompetent, conflicted, poof of a war mongering president.


59 posted on 05/17/2011 3:00:05 PM PDT by hal ogen (1st amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Hudna’s over. Thanks Strategy.


60 posted on 05/17/2011 3:03:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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