Kamra Airbase attacked

[mercenary2k]

Re: Kamra Airbase attacked

@Ali_Syed

^ agreed they moved their forces to the South after the surge, so now why do they cry if terrorist activities take place in Eastern Afghanistan? Most of the high profile AQ leaders have already moved to Kunar and Nuristan as they are more free there as compared to the tribal areas (courtesy of drone strikes), and when ever you get some time do some reading about the Vietnam war and the way Americans treated Cambodians and what were the consequences for the latter. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

So are you off the view that US is not supporting the TTP and some TTP only moved there because US troops were needed elsewhere?

As for Kunar and Nuristan. There are some elements of TTP, Afghan Taliban and Al Qaeda there. US keeps that area bottled up by Air Power while it deployed its ground forces elsewhere due to the Surge. US simply does not have enough troops to secure every area of Afghanistan. So it deployed forces in more populated areas and removed troops from areas where is hardly any people living there such as these two provinces.

As for comparison to Vietnam, it is a non-starter.

US Bombing of Vietnam in Operation Menu in Spring/Summer of 1970 was absolutely devastating. US dropped more bombs on Cambodia than they done on Germany during World War II. Drone strikes don’t even come close. Second of all, Cambodia has a single ethnic group, the Khymer people, while Pakistan is made up of multiple ethnic groups, so a coup that occurred in Cambodia deposing the government by people who were effected by the bombing will not happen in Pakistan.

And besides, Pakistani offensives into FATA have been more destructive, cost more lives, caused mass refugee crisis, because Pakistani Army uses World War II tactics of massed artillery bombardment and air strikes and before sending large number of troops with Tank support instead of utilizing quick reaction forces which other countries have developed.