U.S. Strategy in Pakistan Is Upended by Floods.

elleng

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Wed Aug-18-10 09:38 PM
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U.S. Strategy in Pakistan Is Upended by Floods.

The floods in Pakistan have upended the Obama administration’s carefully honed strategy there, confronting the United States with a vast humanitarian crisis and militant groups determined to exploit the misery, in a country that was already one of its thorniest problems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/world/asia/19diplo.html?hp

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aquart

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Wed Aug-18-10 09:56 PM
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1. We should have had a new strategy ready.

So should Pakistan. IT'S NOT LIKE WE WEREN'T WARNED. This isn't a one-off. This is only the BEGINNING.

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Uncle Joe

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Thu Aug-19-10 10:36 AM
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2. This paragraph seems to have a "can't see the forest for the trees perspective."

“It certainly has security implications,” said another official who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss internal policy deliberations. “An army that is consumed by flood relief is not conducting counterinsurgency operations.”

Thanks for the thread, elleng.

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Demeter

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Thu Aug-19-10 11:48 AM
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3. But, but...That Would Mean Having to Deal With People in Reality!

Individual, messy demanding people. Not abstractions like "terrorists" or "collateral damage".

That would mean boots on the ground not destroying things.

THE WORLD WOULD END!

The NeoCons really can't handle that kind of thing. You don't see W and Slick Willie (t)rotting over there, now, do you? Because it's too frickin' dangerous for "People" in a war zone.

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bulloney

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Thu Aug-19-10 01:42 PM
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4. There's only one thing we can do--BOMB THE FLOODWATERS!

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