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	<title>Comments on: Max Boot on Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>By: buddy larsen</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/03/30/max-boot-on-afghanistan/#comment-43904</link>
		<dc:creator>buddy larsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>fat man, Pakistan and China have oodles of formal military cooperation treaties. Look it up --it&#039;ll blow your mind (well, it did mine) that this is so little known in the west.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>fat man, Pakistan and China have oodles of formal military cooperation treaties. Look it up &#8211;it&#8217;ll blow your mind (well, it did mine) that this is so little known in the west.</p>
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		<title>By: Fat Man</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/03/30/max-boot-on-afghanistan/#comment-43867</link>
		<dc:creator>Fat Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Pakistan is a failed state. It was never more than an undergraduate&#039;s idea. The name Pakistan is neither the name of a place nor a people, it is an acronym (Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir). It was held together by the corps of British trained Muslim officers of the Colonial Army. It balanced the US and China* against India and, its main ally, Russia during the Cold War. It now has no further reason to exist. 

The parties most concerned are 1) our ourselves, because we need to ensure that Pakistan and its nuclear weapons do not become a play ground for Al-Qaeda and Iran, and 2) India, which wants to re-assert its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to end terror attacks on its territory.

We need to work with India to manage the dissolution of Pakistan. India could annex Punjab, Kashmir, and Sind (the mouth of the Indus). The Northwest territories of Pakistan could be merged with the Pashtun parts of Afghanistan as a Pashtunistan which would be an Indian protectorate. The same could be done for Baluchistan. The Iranians would hate that, but so what.

*I have long posited a pipeline between Pakistan ISI and Chinese intelligence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pakistan is a failed state. It was never more than an undergraduate&#8217;s idea. The name Pakistan is neither the name of a place nor a people, it is an acronym (Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir). It was held together by the corps of British trained Muslim officers of the Colonial Army. It balanced the US and China* against India and, its main ally, Russia during the Cold War. It now has no further reason to exist. </p>
<p>The parties most concerned are 1) our ourselves, because we need to ensure that Pakistan and its nuclear weapons do not become a play ground for Al-Qaeda and Iran, and 2) India, which wants to re-assert its sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to end terror attacks on its territory.</p>
<p>We need to work with India to manage the dissolution of Pakistan. India could annex Punjab, Kashmir, and Sind (the mouth of the Indus). The Northwest territories of Pakistan could be merged with the Pashtun parts of Afghanistan as a Pashtunistan which would be an Indian protectorate. The same could be done for Baluchistan. The Iranians would hate that, but so what.</p>
<p>*I have long posited a pipeline between Pakistan ISI and Chinese intelligence.</p>
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		<title>By: Alexis</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/03/30/max-boot-on-afghanistan/#comment-43866</link>
		<dc:creator>Alexis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When a man presents himself with a halo painted around his head, he sets the emotional and political expectations of himself sky high.  I suppose that is what &quot;hope&quot; is supposed to be about.  Well, the problem with setting high expectations for one&#039;s self is that one is expected to meet them.  If Barack Obama is truly a superman, he certainly has an opportunity now to prove it.

George W. Bush called himself a &quot;uniter, not a divider&quot;.  If Obama claims to be uniting Americans, then he is truly more of the same.

And by the way, I didn&#039;t approve when Republicans used &quot;RATS&quot; in a commercial in 2000...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When a man presents himself with a halo painted around his head, he sets the emotional and political expectations of himself sky high.  I suppose that is what &#8220;hope&#8221; is supposed to be about.  Well, the problem with setting high expectations for one&#8217;s self is that one is expected to meet them.  If Barack Obama is truly a superman, he certainly has an opportunity now to prove it.</p>
<p>George W. Bush called himself a &#8220;uniter, not a divider&#8221;.  If Obama claims to be uniting Americans, then he is truly more of the same.</p>
<p>And by the way, I didn&#8217;t approve when Republicans used &#8220;RATS&#8221; in a commercial in 2000&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: buddy larsen</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/03/30/max-boot-on-afghanistan/#comment-43820</link>
		<dc:creator>buddy larsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Audie Murphy, if anyone is reading this --not Gen Petraeus. The &#039;most-decorated American soldier of WWII&#039; as a civilian Hollywood actor about ten years later starred in the movie about the most decorated soldier of WWII, Audie Murphy. Audie Murphy played the lead. pretty durn well, too, for a country boy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Audie Murphy, if anyone is reading this &#8211;not Gen Petraeus. The &#8216;most-decorated American soldier of WWII&#8217; as a civilian Hollywood actor about ten years later starred in the movie about the most decorated soldier of WWII, Audie Murphy. Audie Murphy played the lead. pretty durn well, too, for a country boy.</p>
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		<title>By: buddy larsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>buddy larsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;To Hell and Back&quot; --good movie, and realistic in a whole new way, as the hero was played by himself, the actual hero.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;To Hell and Back&#8221; &#8211;good movie, and realistic in a whole new way, as the hero was played by himself, the actual hero.</p>
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		<title>By: buddy larsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>buddy larsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>that&#039;s a helluva story, how a recruit put a round through his chest, out on the range somewhere i guess. maybe he used up his bad luck right there --as in how many officers get shot accidentally on a training exercize, and then make four star General?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>that&#8217;s a helluva story, how a recruit put a round through his chest, out on the range somewhere i guess. maybe he used up his bad luck right there &#8211;as in how many officers get shot accidentally on a training exercize, and then make four star General?</p>
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		<title>By: Cannoneer No. 4</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cannoneer No. 4</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have no doubt he earned every last one of them, Habu.

At his level he could choose to wear fewer.  I choose to think he wears them all to set an example to the troops to wear &lt;i&gt;theirs&lt;/i&gt;.  That rack is a pain in the butt.  I doubt he puts up with it for his own ego&#039;s sake.  

There are a bunch of new ribbons they didn&#039;t have when we were in, and he has been at war pretty much continuously the last six years.  Audi Murphy was only at it 27 months.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no doubt he earned every last one of them, Habu.</p>
<p>At his level he could choose to wear fewer.  I choose to think he wears them all to set an example to the troops to wear <i>theirs</i>.  That rack is a pain in the butt.  I doubt he puts up with it for his own ego&#8217;s sake.  </p>
<p>There are a bunch of new ribbons they didn&#8217;t have when we were in, and he has been at war pretty much continuously the last six years.  Audi Murphy was only at it 27 months.</p>
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		<title>By: Habu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Habu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>28. Cannoneer No. 4:

I noticed the same body language. How to read it I don&#039;t know . If I was bputting my chips on the table I&#039;d say he&#039;s uncomfortable working for obama and would liked to have said stuff like
&quot;Hell yes Pakistan is NOT to be trusted&quot; but he knows he can&#039;t...well actually he can but ususally only once.

I like the General but Cannoneer did it look to you like he has been the victim of ribbon inflation? I mean you could add Audie Murphy and Doug McArthur together and not come up with that much salad. Gads</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>28. Cannoneer No. 4:</p>
<p>I noticed the same body language. How to read it I don&#8217;t know . If I was bputting my chips on the table I&#8217;d say he&#8217;s uncomfortable working for obama and would liked to have said stuff like<br />
&#8220;Hell yes Pakistan is NOT to be trusted&#8221; but he knows he can&#8217;t&#8230;well actually he can but ususally only once.</p>
<p>I like the General but Cannoneer did it look to you like he has been the victim of ribbon inflation? I mean you could add Audie Murphy and Doug McArthur together and not come up with that much salad. Gads</p>
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		<title>By: Cannoneer No. 4</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cannoneer No. 4</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/30/petraeus-military-reserves-right-resort-threats-inside-pakistan/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Petraeus: Military Reserves &#039;Right of Last Resort&#039; for Threats Inside Pakistan&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/03/30/petraeus-military-reserves-right-resort-threats-inside-pakistan/" rel="nofollow">Petraeus: Military Reserves &#8216;Right of Last Resort&#8217; for Threats Inside Pakistan</a></p>
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		<title>By: buddy larsen</title>
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		<dc:creator>buddy larsen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>uh oh --toeing the line, and the line is wrong --cripes --the O team is moving in --</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>uh oh &#8211;toeing the line, and the line is wrong &#8211;cripes &#8211;the O team is moving in &#8211;</p>
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