Re: Should US attack militants in Pakistan?
Unfortunately Hillary is not a green beret posted in the hills of Tora Bora. If and when US / NATO / Pak soldiers on the ground are in danger, they will call in air support. And the result will be a whole lot of shelling on the Mullah positions.
As I said earlier, 20 miles each side of Pak-Afghan border is a fare game for anyone with air power or boots on the ground.
NATO has air power but lacks boots on the ground (only 20K to cover the whole hell-hole of Afghanistan).
Pakistan may lack air power, but we can concentrate 80K pairs of boots in a relative small area of Wazirastan.
Pak government should stop protesting at every statement.
We instead should take a stance that yes NATO planes can bomb the terrorists few miles inside our border while pursuing these Mullahs running across the border.
and we on other hand (with 80,000 boots on the ground) can do hot pursuit in Afghanistan when these terrorists run for cover across the border.
The emphasis is on the “joint” ops.