That is something you can only do with boots on the ground, and it’s a lot like that shooting range in “Magnum Force” where Clint Eastwood has to hit the bad guys and hold fire when it’s just civilians. The Bush Administration most of their their troops in Iraq running midnight basketball programs and painting madrassas, so they just rely on Predator drones to take care of terrorists on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, maybe with some Blackwater thrown in there for a little color. That amounts to just kicking the door down and taking out everyone in it without looking to see if the intelligence was bad and it’s really a tupperware hen party instead of a jihadist hootenanny like they first thought. President-elect Obama wants to shift the troops away from building nations and actually get them up into the shit.

Or was it totally homegrown Islamic commandos from the madrassas to just stir up trouble in India?

This attack was a classic commando raid with targets picked put ahead of time of hard and soft. The hard targets were the attacks on the two police stations. Soft targets were the transit and hospitals and just spray and terrorize.

The medium targets were the hotels and restaurants for valuable hostages of Americans and British. Thankfully the Indian response was to go into room by room and kill the commandos.

This raid is an issue to America but it was not an attack on our soil and apparently few if any Americans were killed. This is sole province of India. So comments we should destroy Mecca are absurd.

What happens if you carpet bomb jello? Does the jello disintegrate into a billion tiny, tiny pieces?

Well, there you go, then.

I believe that’s already been done. Recent meeting between new head of Pak military and Petraeus has resulted in several high-ranking terrorist predator hits, when Petraeus pointed out to said Pak military leader that we have *proof* of Paki military and ISI connections with Taliban and Al-Queda.

And if India didn’t already have those names, too, you know fur shur they do now.

Slaughter now or slaughter later.
Slaughter later = slaughter more.

I’ve often wondered if the two sides work different shifts on different floors of the building, because surely if they worked side by side there would have been a good juicy murder or two done by now.

Or maybe there has been and the Australian just reported it in a typically PC way using euphamisms and initials for everyone involved so no one realized that “journalists” in Oz are killing each other.

Not that hard to do if done on the QT, via providing intel. Which may be behind the recent Predator strikes in Pakistan. That allows the Pakistani government to deny involvement and thus avoid internal political ramifications, while still appeasing the U.S.

It does require the government having the upper hand in the ISI, though, which is questionable.

“So there you have it folks, watch out for teenage gunmen running amok the next time you visit India…” –Wretchard

Generally, you have to shine sunlight on this ink stained wretch who glosses over heinous terror acts such, as Lex Hall of The Australian, to modify his poor reporting habits.

You would generally want to know his background, his boss, and his location or contact address. With the internet and google it is fairly simple. Just google his name. Here are the results:

[Linkedin.com]

Lex Hall
Reporter at The Australian/News Limited
Sydney Area, Australia
Current:
Reporter at News Limited – The Australian

Lex Hall’s Education
Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
MA, French Literature, 2001 — 2004
University of New South Wales
1996 — 2000

Go to Linkedin.com and you will find him.
See: Lex Hall’s bio in LinkEdin dot com

His boss can be found under the Staff link at The Australian:

Mostly likely Lex’s boss is Andrew Fraser Queensland bureau Chief.

“Our Staff”

Andrew Fraser
Queensland bureau Chief

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/ourstaff

[Click the link and you get his bio and his telephone number and email address]

[bio and picture]

Fraser was appointed Queensland bureau chief in early 2007. He joined The Australian in 2000, and since then has been a finance and general reporter as well as Queensland political correspondent. He has also worked as a journalist in the Canberra press gallery and as senior adviser to the deputy premier of Queensland. He is a generalist, and is particularly interested in stories where elements such as politics, business, arts and sport overlap. The Queensland bureau also looks over the border to northern NSW.

Phone 07 3*** 74**.
frasera at theaustralian dot com dot au

[Wrechard notes]

“Now that the “teenage gunmen” have made Indian concessions to Pakistan politically impossible we can expect those overtures to be suspended, but they will resume the moment public anger subsides… Those “teenage gunmen” have got New Delhi and Washington over a barrel and know it. The events in Mumbai are unlikely to change the situation in the region. On the contrary, they suggest that such attacks will become depressingly common, much as the rockets raining down on Israel have ceased to become news.” Wretchard

That is probably a good assessment. I doubt Obama will have the stomach to fight.

I would suggest dissecting Pakistan terror infrastructure using Special Forces and clandestine methods.

That will require obtaining names and locations of Pakistani officials who shelter terrorists and eliminate them as quickly as possible with the least amount of media attention.

The tactics are the same. You obtain information on the Pakistani official’s location (possibly by payments) then liquidate them (preferably “in an accident”).

You repeat the process until enough holes have been drill in to the “Swiss Cheese” that it just collapses.