KJ
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Uhm, you might have missed the fact that Al Qaida have claimed responsibility for the twin towers operation?
As the Taliban in Afghanistan housed Al Qaida training camps "The Stan" became a legit target after Taliban goverment refused to shut the camps down.
THAT is why ISAF is in country, not to get rid of opium, not to provide goverment to Afghanistan but to provide security for Afghani civilians in their own land and assist the elected civilian leadership and assist and train it´s police force.
OEF is a different mission, they are not in Afghanistan to stop opium either.
OEF forces are in Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only.
To hunt Al Qaida and Taliban forces down and kill or arrest them.
The two are very seperate missions.
One is a UN mission. (ISAF)
And the other (OEF) is a NATO mission.
Neither of the two are geared towards ending the growth of opium and/or governing Afghanistan.
No nation of either mission have layed claim to bases in The Stan, because lets face it. The bases currently in operation in neighbouring nations are more important in a tactical scense.
And not such a "hot potatoe" politically either.
I DO however find it very interesting that a cadet from the armed forces of Pakistan does not see the Taliban forces in his nation as a problem.
Not too long ago the Taliban went on the offensive and took a city within "spitting range" of the Pakistani capital.
How that can be construed as something other then a clear and present danger to the goverment of Pakistan is quite interesting and revealing.
Furthermore there is a lot of talk about what the Pakistani goverment did to help the Jihadists to evict Russia from Afghanistan.
Truth in this matter is that the most helpful thing the Pakistani goverment did to aid that cause was to let western agencies smuggle weapons across their border.
A reasonable question while speaking of this is, could they have stopped it?
When you see the state of the Pakistani border security today where Al Qaida and Taliban fighters cross over to Pakistan at will that question is relevant IMO.
I would also like to see some sort of statistics from a somewhat neutral source on the airvictory against India you layed claim to earlier in a thread.
I was under the impression that the airwar ended in somewhat of a stalemate.
But as that is something I have read some about on my own time maybe my sources have been biased. I dunno.
Didn´t the Pakistani SSG partake in some sort of joint exercise with western SOF awhile back?
I seem to remember there were talk about replacing their Russian Helos as they were borderline airworthy.
Has that been done yet?
Regards.
//KJ.
As the Taliban in Afghanistan housed Al Qaida training camps "The Stan" became a legit target after Taliban goverment refused to shut the camps down.
THAT is why ISAF is in country, not to get rid of opium, not to provide goverment to Afghanistan but to provide security for Afghani civilians in their own land and assist the elected civilian leadership and assist and train it´s police force.
OEF is a different mission, they are not in Afghanistan to stop opium either.
OEF forces are in Afghanistan for one reason and one reason only.
To hunt Al Qaida and Taliban forces down and kill or arrest them.
The two are very seperate missions.
One is a UN mission. (ISAF)
And the other (OEF) is a NATO mission.
Neither of the two are geared towards ending the growth of opium and/or governing Afghanistan.
No nation of either mission have layed claim to bases in The Stan, because lets face it. The bases currently in operation in neighbouring nations are more important in a tactical scense.
And not such a "hot potatoe" politically either.
I DO however find it very interesting that a cadet from the armed forces of Pakistan does not see the Taliban forces in his nation as a problem.
Not too long ago the Taliban went on the offensive and took a city within "spitting range" of the Pakistani capital.
How that can be construed as something other then a clear and present danger to the goverment of Pakistan is quite interesting and revealing.
Furthermore there is a lot of talk about what the Pakistani goverment did to help the Jihadists to evict Russia from Afghanistan.
Truth in this matter is that the most helpful thing the Pakistani goverment did to aid that cause was to let western agencies smuggle weapons across their border.
A reasonable question while speaking of this is, could they have stopped it?
When you see the state of the Pakistani border security today where Al Qaida and Taliban fighters cross over to Pakistan at will that question is relevant IMO.
I would also like to see some sort of statistics from a somewhat neutral source on the airvictory against India you layed claim to earlier in a thread.
I was under the impression that the airwar ended in somewhat of a stalemate.
But as that is something I have read some about on my own time maybe my sources have been biased. I dunno.
Didn´t the Pakistani SSG partake in some sort of joint exercise with western SOF awhile back?
I seem to remember there were talk about replacing their Russian Helos as they were borderline airworthy.
Has that been done yet?
Regards.
//KJ.
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