NATO Helicopters light up Pak outpost
It seems that some helicopters lit up the night at a Pakistani outpost near the AFghanistan border killing at least 24 Pakistan troops who were sleeping before the night raid. All of the news sources are calling them “NATO helicopters”, but they look to be US given the responses by the Obama Administration.
The Obama administration promised a full investigation. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, issued a joint statement saying they had each spoken to their Pakistani counterparts to express their condolences for the loss of life.
Pakistan was blunt that the killings represented a serious setback for the two countries’ tattered alliance. The prime minister’s office said the foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Clinton on Sunday that the attack was unacceptable, showed complete disregard for human life and had sparked rage within Pakistan.
Yeah, well, as far as “sparking rage in Pakistan” all it would take is a Zippo. Those folks wake up outraged every morning.
The Pakistanis claim the attack was unprovoked, nut that’s a little hard to believe.
Much of the violence in Afghanistan is carried out by insurgents that are based just across the border in Pakistan. Coalition forces are not allowed to cross the frontier to attack the militants. The militants, however, sometimes fire artillery and rockets across the line, reportedly from locations close to Pakistani army posts.
American officials have repeatedly accused Pakistani forces of supporting — or turning a blind eye — to militants using its territory for cross-border attacks.
So, Pakistan responds by shutting down the border-crossing points for supplies to our troops and shutting dow a drone base in Pakistan;
American forces were given 15 days to vacate the remote Shamsi airbase, which was secretly turned over to them after the 9/11 attacks. The decision to order the Americans out followed an emergency meeting of Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership late Saturday to decide how to respond to the deaths of the soldiers.
Yeah, ya know if Pakistan would take the same measures against the Taliban every time they lost troops in a Taliban attack, the war would be over by now.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Terror War
Pakistan is run by extremists, and why would they go after the Taliban or AQ when we give them tons of money every year not to. If they rooted out our, and theirs, enemy the sweet American dollars and weapons would stop flowing.
In short, F Pakistan.
I have absolutely nothing to offer related to Dunkin Donuts, 7-11, or Obama’s Pack-e-stan. I just wanted to find a spot where the nutjobs weren’t. Now, back to the NFL.
Yeah, think of all those Dunkin Donuts, 7-11 jobs that would go unfilled here in the U.S. if the Pakis could stay home, because they were no longer in danger of being blown up by AQ or The ISI.
You know how all DD’s coffee tastes alike? Well, I found one that makes THE worst coffee this side of Alex Ahente’s donkey. I was so incredulous, I stopped and got a coffee there 3 different times over the course of a month, waited another month or so, got another, all with the same result. Pa-tooey! Must be the water.
Well, AirCav, contrary to what Achmed the manager tells the employees, it does help to wash the acid out of the coffee maker once a month or so.
Well won’t it be fun when Pakistan declares (unofficially of course) war on America, so naturally Afghanistan follows suit.
Just read this at FOXNews.com:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/11/27/afghan-officials-fire-from-pakistan-led-to-attack/
Seems there is now a claim that the choppers were returning fire. Plausible, very plausible.
I would tell them “Fine… As of this minute the money STOPS and we will reply to any aggression by Pakistani forces with overwhelming force. Choose… With us or against us, but you might want to ask Sadam how that worked out for him. “
If you grab a burning stick by both ends eventually you get burned by both ends.
Pakistan has for too long played both sides. Screw em.
We, as I read it, suck up to them because A. We enjoy the port to facilitate our re-supply missions in Afghanistan, and B. We are told that China is waiting to step in and pick up the slack when we leave. Either of those is not an insurmountable problem. There are other ‘Stans” that would like some of our greenbacks n defenses, and China has no real gain by getting in there, other than to finance their jihad. Scrue the bastards.
PAKISTAN IS AN ENEMY COUNTRY. THEY SHOULD BE MADE VIOLENTLY AWARE OF THAT FACT. AND STOP FUCKING GIVING THEM OUR MONEY.