To put it bluntly, Pakistan has poked a stick in our eye. Destroying 150+ American military vehicles with military weapons is akin to an act of war.

It is a clear way of the Pakistani military saying “We can cut your vital supply lines anytime we desire.”

We need those vehicles to keep our guys safe and to keep operations against the Taliban and al Qaeda going.

[Black Five commenter Haole_Wahine notes the rouge ISI Gen Hamid Gul indicates we are the enemy in a CNN interview]

Fareed Zakari introduced him as the
“former head of Pakistan’s elusive intellignece service, the man who is said to have created the Taliban, Hamid Gul . . .
his name is one of the 4 names US has given to United Nations of ISI officers they would like to place on an international terrorist list.”

Gen Gul’s position on Afghanistan — “… my position is that Americans have aggresses in Afghanistan. And who ever is resisting, the resistance there is justifiable.”

[read the whole thing]

See Black Five comments:

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2008/12/our-vulnerable.html#comments

Further it is not clear who is in charge of the Pakistani military – or if anybody is in charge except the warlords.

For all we know Gen. Gul is pulling the strings behind the curtain and possibly has control over Paki nukes and other heavy weapons.

I believe “negotiating” with the Paki government is futile and will be met with doses of utter taqiyya.

Sooner or later these guys like Gen Hamid Gul must be liquidated. The sooner the better. But, I doubt it can be done with Predators or Special Ops. They will be dug in deep. It will take the heavy weapons to dislodge them. To keep them from re-grouping will take even more.