Re: Af/Pak & Libya News (8/6/2011)
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Group: rec.aviation.military · Group Profile
Author: Dennis
Date: Aug 9, 2011 23:18

William Black wrote:
> I envy you your confidence in bringing the tribes of the NWF under
> control with the local, usually quiet population, playing merry hell
> and declaring jihad all over the place.
> This isn't Iraq with its wide arid areas and not many people, this is
> 200 million people, mostly with guns, living in a mountainous area
> and having really bad attitude problem.

This is the only solution I can see for the question of the NWF and
Afghanistan :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Invasion

However, it's not one that the West would do, though we might enjoy
fantasizing about it.
> Plus giving large areas of Pakistan to China will really piss India
> off.

More than they already are?

Of course, we'd really like to have India as an ally; they're a genuinely
good ally, not like Pakistan.

Dennis
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