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On the Pakistani border

July 13, 2008 - 2:56 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Tony
2008-07-14 15:05:34

Old Blue, thank you for your service, sir.

In “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell provides a terrifying description of ambush in this nearly vertical terrain by overwhelming numbers of locals who know every goat trail.

The question is how long are we going to be the only ones to respect this invisible border? It sounds so much like the similar imaginary borders and ROE that did us so much harm in the early years of Vietnam.

Not to be a war-monger, but how long before Arclight over Waziristan?