Re: Seven missile strikes in Pakistan kill 20
Unfortunately, its not the terrorists that get killed, its women and children that get killed, leaving behind more crazy men that are vulnerable to extremist propaganda.
And why the hell Americans fire a couple of missiles everynow and then. What they achieve from it? Or is it that they want to keep both sides motivated and want the war going on.
I have advocated several times that border with Afghanistan shud be totally sealed, but it seems Paki governments hand are tied. Whenever they seal the border Afghans protest and border is opened under US pressure. Moreover, all the US & Nato forces use this border for getting supplies and they don't want it to be closed.
Icon bro! Be respectful to Pakistanis at least. Paki is a derogatory term used for Shudras (untouchables) in the Indian South. There is no need to copycat the worst aspects of Indian society. Thank you.
Americans and Pakistani army are using missiles as precision attacks. Al-Libbi the terrorist was recently killed in a similar attack recently.
Why to use precision guided munition? Simple. Pakistani army has lost 100s of its soldiers to the tribal nutcases.
- Your suggestion for locking down the border with Afghanistan is a good one. It should be done if possible.
But if the Afghanis are against closing down the border, then we should take our military on the Afghan side, especially from the southern Afghanistan. There is no use in wasting our troops by using them Wazirastan.
Ultimately we may have to use examples from the American civil war in Shenadoah valley.
The example is based on the orders General Grant gave to General Sheridan for the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign.
Angry that a confederate army led by Jubal Early had been able to use the Valley both as a granary for the southern armies and a sheltered invasion route of the north, Grant created the 40,000 man Army of the Shenandoah and put the bulldog Sheridan in command with two specific orders; kill Early’s army and
***consume and destroy all forage and subsistence, burn all barns and mills and drive off all stock in the region.
Valley residents who complained about the wholesale destruction were told, per Sheridan’s instructions,
*** that they have furnished too many meals to guerrillas to expect much sympathy.***
Grant explained in a letter to Army Commander in Chief Henry Halleck that he wanted Sheridan to
***eat out Virginia clear and clean as far as they go, so that crows flying over it for the balance of the season will have to carry their provender with them.
Grant got down to more specific details in his further instructions to Sheridan, saying that he
should make all the Valley south of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad a desert as high up as possible. I do not mean that houses should be burned, but all provisions and stock should be removed, and the people notified to get out.
Don't get decieved by nicey nicy dem-vs.-repub potshots. The things that make America as a strong country is precisely what Gen. Grant did during the civil war.
We now have a Islamist-driven civil war going in Pakistan. And the only way to deal with this is what Americans used in their civil war.
*Question is? As Pakistanis, would we allow our General Grants to take decisive actions?
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