U.S. Lacks Plan to Operate in Pakistani Tribal Areas, GAO

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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/17/AR2008041703721.html?hpid=sec-politics


'The Government Accountability Office also said "the United States has not met its national security goals to destroy terrorist threats and close the safe haven" provided by the tribal areas, despite having spent more than $10 billion for Pakistani military operations in the mountainous border region."'

"we found broad agreement . . . that al-Qaida had regenerated its ability to attack the United States and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven"

So much for the case that the Iraq fiasco has made the US safer.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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Maybe the reason that the Presidential campaigns started so early this time was that the American people just can't wait to be rid of the current administration.

what a bunch of fuckups.

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Taking a page from you.......

Ah yes, the Washington Compost





DAM you made that easy

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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By the way I did not read the article. At this stage what would be the point?

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

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Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, said the administration "is dealing with the terrorist threat in Pakistan through a variety of means," including "health, education, economic development, political reform" and military resources. "This is going to be a long battle against a determined enemy," Johndroe said.

At least someone is thinking straight. The sad thing is that the people of Pakistan used to love America, it was very common to see the US flag flying in shanty towns and in the towns and cities next to the Pakistani flag and loads of Pro US car stickers.
The government of Pakistan has been fighting a bloody war against the Taliban and Al Q affliates in NWFP and has lost hundreds of soldiers. This area is Tribal area and called such for good reason.
Some blame the Pakistani government but its hardly their fault. If the USA, UK, Canada and the Netherlands and several other European countries can't keep the Taliban in check in Afghanistan what chance does the Pakistani government have?

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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By the way I did not read the article. At this stage what would be the point?

Still reading Newsmax, are you

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Wish the partion had been given a bit more thought in '47.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'

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Wish the partion had been given a bit more thought in '47.

I think I recall reading somewhere that the person who drew up the partition never even visited the region.

edited to add: My mistake. Radcliffe did travel to the region. He was given five weeks and few resources to come up with the partition. The UN was kept out of it in order to speed things along.

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Yep, and what a splendid decision it was too...

The UN wasn't kept out just to 'speed things along' though. It was to save money and face; and through a general 'couldn't give a fuck attitude' over the effect the border would have.

'for it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.'