{"id":27671,"date":"2011-11-27T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27671"},"modified":"2011-11-27T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T13:00:45","slug":"nato-helicopters-light-up-pak-outpost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27671","title":{"rendered":"NATO Helicopters light up Pak outpost"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems that some helicopters lit up the night at a Pakistani outpost<\/a> near the AFghanistan border killing at least 24 Pakistan troops who were sleeping before the night raid. All of the news sources are calling them “NATO helicopters”, but they look to be US given the responses by the Obama Administration. <\/p>\n

The Obama administration promised a full investigation. Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and Leon Panetta, the defence secretary, issued a joint statement saying they had each spoken to their Pakistani counterparts to express their condolences for the loss of life.<\/p>\n

Pakistan was blunt that the killings represented a serious setback for the two countries’ tattered alliance. The prime minister’s office said the foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, told Clinton on Sunday that the attack was unacceptable, showed complete disregard for human life and had sparked rage within Pakistan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, as far as “sparking rage in Pakistan” all it would take is a Zippo. Those folks wake up outraged every morning.<\/p>\n

The Pakistanis claim the attack was unprovoked, nut that’s a little hard to believe<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Much of the violence in Afghanistan is carried out by insurgents that are based just across the border in Pakistan. Coalition forces are not allowed to cross the frontier to attack the militants. The militants, however, sometimes fire artillery and rockets across the line, reportedly from locations close to Pakistani army posts.<\/p>\n

American officials have repeatedly accused Pakistani forces of supporting \u2014 or turning a blind eye \u2014 to militants using its territory for cross-border attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, Pakistan responds by shutting down the border-crossing points for supplies to our troops<\/a> and shutting dow a drone base in Pakistan;<\/p>\n

American forces were given 15 days to vacate the remote Shamsi airbase, which was secretly turned over to them after the 9\/11 attacks. The decision to order the Americans out followed an emergency meeting of Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership late Saturday to decide how to respond to the deaths of the soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, ya know if Pakistan would take the same measures against the Taliban every time they lost troops in a Taliban attack, the war would be over by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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