Good! The Pakis are starting to get a little bit pissed off but at this point, I think the U.S. and NATO have successfully set the precedent for carrying the war agains the Taliban into Pakistan and that will completely change the War in Afghanistan. Here's the complete brief report from Pakistan's news outlet, Daily Times:
If the U.S. and NATO can successfully start to fly AH-64 missions into Pakistan, it will change the whole complexion of the Taliban's use of Pakistan as a home base and this could literally turn the tide of the Afghan War. I feel the success of this new strategy was two fold: First, the new Pakistani government was late to react to the incursions into Pakistan by U.S. drones initially and second, the U.S. was clever in at first targeting only al Qaeda personnel.
Either way you look at it, I think the U.S. and NATO will continue to push the envelope until the Pakis REALLY raise a fit. Also, I think the U.S. was smart to have Afghanistan's President Karzai make the threats recently of sending his troops across the Pakistan border if Taliban continue to flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan - what this did was minimize the incursions into Pakistan of Coalition air craft and unmanned drones.
I think this is all setting the stage for some major air strikes by fixed wing aircraft of the U.S. - bombing strikes that should strike fear not only into the Taliban but the upper echelons of al Qaeda.
2 US helicopters violate Pakistani airspace
LANDI KOTAL: Two American gunship helicopters entered Pakistan from Afghanistan near the Torkham border, flying low over a four-kilometre area above the Torkham, Pasid Khel and Landi Khana villages for six or seven minutes, locals and officials said on Sunday. Assistant Political Agent Ghulam Habib Khan and an official of an intelligence agency confirmed that US helicopters had violated Pakistani airspace on Sunday.
If the U.S. and NATO can successfully start to fly AH-64 missions into Pakistan, it will change the whole complexion of the Taliban's use of Pakistan as a home base and this could literally turn the tide of the Afghan War. I feel the success of this new strategy was two fold: First, the new Pakistani government was late to react to the incursions into Pakistan by U.S. drones initially and second, the U.S. was clever in at first targeting only al Qaeda personnel.
Either way you look at it, I think the U.S. and NATO will continue to push the envelope until the Pakis REALLY raise a fit. Also, I think the U.S. was smart to have Afghanistan's President Karzai make the threats recently of sending his troops across the Pakistan border if Taliban continue to flow from Pakistan into Afghanistan - what this did was minimize the incursions into Pakistan of Coalition air craft and unmanned drones.
I think this is all setting the stage for some major air strikes by fixed wing aircraft of the U.S. - bombing strikes that should strike fear not only into the Taliban but the upper echelons of al Qaeda.
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