{"id":20686,"date":"2010-10-01T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20686"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:51:10","slug":"smart-diplomacy-on-the-pakistan-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20686","title":{"rendered":"Smart diplomacy on the Pakistan border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday at Blackfive<\/a>, Matt wrote about the mistaken attack on a remote Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan which cost the lives of three pakistani soldiers. As a result, Pakistan has closed access to main border crossings by NATO resupply vehicles.<\/p>\n

As a result, the New York Times<\/a> reports that 27 fuel trucks were attacked in Pakistan;<\/p>\n

Senior local officials said “extremists” are believed to have carried out the attack on the tankers in the southern town of Shikarpur early on Friday.<\/p>\n

About 12 people, with their faces covered, opened fire with small arms in the air to scare away the drivers and then torched some 30 vehicles. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m sure a large check written on money we don’t have will make Pakistan forget about the cross-border attacks until next time. I don’t know what intelligence led the drone operators to fly a mission against three man-jammied privates on a border outpost (at least it wasn’t the Chinese Embassy, huh, Matt?) but when you fight a war from the air, these mistakes are bound to happen.<\/p>\n

The Obama should make the Pakistani government understand that either they accept the losses from our air campaign or accept US forces on their ground. If the Pakistanis want to be free from the terror inflicted on them from their former allies, those are their only two choices.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I suspect that the Obama\/Biden team will use some more of that “smart diplomacy” bullshit that we’ve watched work so well on Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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