Comments on: Pakistani Troops Will Fire If U.S. Raids

By: Avinash_Tyagi

Avinash_Tyagi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:35:04 +0000

Pakistan would never risk a Nuclear war with the US over some raids, and Pakistani conventional forces aren’t strong enough to prevent our special forces from completing their missions into Pakistani territory. This is saber rattling by the Pakistanis to save face, nothing more, nothing less

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:18:32 +0000

If Obama is true to his word about going into Pakistan to fight al Qaeda, and if that could lead to a deeper conflict with Pakistan, does he risk it?

No.

By: BenG

BenG — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:47:13 +0000

BTW, I forgot to mention it was a very good article and shared some important things about Pakistan history that were new to me and very interesting, although quite depressing to learn about another ‘ally’ on the WOT that we actually know very little about.

By: BenG

BenG — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:25 +0000

Justin,

Don’t fall into that false logic of what Obama had said about taking a harder look at the problem in Afghanistan and extrapolating that into ” It means more war – and more bitter and protracted war at that” The point Obama was making was that we shouldn’t have taken our eye off the ball where our true enemies were and that has since proven to be true.

Bush went down the wrong road into Iraq, and the more we find out about it the more we see how wrong his incentives were. But what matters here is that Republican Senator McCain was a leader in a Republican Senate that enabled the whole debacle and that is certain. And if McCain lives up to his word we’ll be in Iraq another hundred years if that’s what it takes to get it right!

By: Gaucho Politico

Gaucho Politico — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:22:08 +0000

i think he would probably end up following through on the strikes. Obama has not ever stood for the total end to war. no one should come to that conclusion based on his rhetoric. it has been fairly obvious that he considers afghanistan very, very important in terms of terrorist fighting. He has always been committed to fighting there. that fighting might ultimately be unsuccessful but his rationale and underpinning is that it is worth the fight because that is where bin laden is and that is where the strong hold of al queda is.

Part of dealing with this is dealing with the idea that these people use pakistan as a base of operations. pakistan has not exerted consistent authority in that part of the country, southern waziristan etc and i think obama believes that pakistan has far more to gain from cooperating with us than in fighting against us. At least they would if we had a functioning economy.

Also, is pakistan going to nuke us? no. no one is pulling out the nukes over this.