DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Pakistanis Fire On U.S. Troops In *Afghanistan*

  • go · 1 year ago
    an internation incident, like flying armed helicopters into another nations airspace? if russia started flying nuclear bombers over the US, we'd sure shoot them down. I'm not sure if you grasp this notion of "national independence", the US doesn't own the world.
  • awenshok · 1 year ago
    Pakistan (pock-key-stun) is a terrorist nation. They provide safe haven for terrorists and supply and support them. We will soon be after the terrorists big time and they will suffer the consequences.
  • ufred · 1 year ago
    It could be that the Pakistani military wasn't actually trying to hit copters, but was simply engaging in the traditional covering fire for terrorists returning home after trying to destabilize Afghanistan.
  • Thomas Gunning · 1 year ago
    Before you start to speculate, read actual accounts of what happened in Google news " US choppers tried to enter Pakistani Airspace" despite Admiral Mike Mullen assuring Pakistanis that US would respect that countries sovereignty. The Pakistani forces fired flares to warn their allies to respect international borders and their sovereignty so before you get all testy and jumpy ask yourself what we are trying achieve by being in that region our premise for going to war in Iraq (i.e finding WMDs -more like occupying oilfields for Dick Chaney Hallibuton et al) -was a sham and in Afghanistan fighting Al-Qaeeda seems futile our economy is collapsing because of the strain of these wars and years of mal-adminstration, isn't it time we stopped meddling in the afairs of others and tried to improve the situation at home?
  • pajarito · 1 year ago
    "Then we really will have an international incident on our hands." ---this is what BushCo wants. It will give us a pretext to attack Pakistan, distract from the Homeland Financial Collapse allowing a stampede of congress, and will shore up Sen. McCain as the "defense" candidate (despite Palin).

    Further, the turmoil will allow martial law in the U.S. and BushCo can suspend the election, the constitution, and the very few remaining laws that they haven't already. Oh, and bankrupting the middle class (even more) and making BushCo cronies richer.