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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #75 on: December 04, 2011, 03:27:34 PM »
Yeah, but when they take out 24 Pakistani troops with a drone, that is  less than convincing message.



Pakistan Was Consulted Before Fatal Hit, U.S. Says
Deadly Border Strike Came After Forces Were Told Area Was Clear of Pakistani Troops, Officials Say

December 2, 2011

BY Julian E. Barnes and Adam Entous

WASHINGTON:Pakistani officials at a border coordination center gave the go-ahead to American airstrikes
that inadvertently killed 24 Pakistan troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area, according to U.S. officials
briefed on the preliminary investigation.

U.S. officials, giving their first detailed explanation of the worst friendly-fire incident of the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan,
said an Afghan-led assault force that included American commandos were hunting Taliban militants when they came under
fire from an encampment along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

The commandos thought they were being fired upon by militants. But the assailants turned out to be Pakistani military personnel ...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833104577072771910500442.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #76 on: December 04, 2011, 03:43:15 PM »
So much for the asanine notion that were in a "war on Muslims"
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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #77 on: December 04, 2011, 04:59:46 PM »
even if the Pakistan were the ones who screwed up, it still looks really bad to the Pakistani people.

imagine what Americans would think if Pakistanis killed 24 us troops.
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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #78 on: December 04, 2011, 07:11:32 PM »
even if the Pakistan were the ones who screwed up, it still looks really bad to the Pakistani people.

imagine what Americans would think if Pakistanis killed 24 us troops.


There is no need to wonder is there?
Packistanis have killed US troops, and how do we feel about it?

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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #79 on: December 04, 2011, 07:39:11 PM »
if they took out 24 all at once, i imagine that would have a lot more impact, even if it were the fault of the Americans.
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Re: High Stakes in Syria makes for crowded waters!
« Reply #80 on: December 05, 2011, 12:16:24 AM »
You think it would be considered, by the American people as an act of war upon......Christians??  The U.S.? 
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