Things Heard: e77v3
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at
10:27 pm
- Well, that makes my day seem mundane (which might not be entirely a bad thing).
- What’s going on in Afghanistan … doesn’t seem like a COIN operation, I wonder why not?
- Well, my second favourite cyclist crashed.
- One man’s reaction to Microsoft (and a far cry from yum or apt-get).
- Obama and Up!
- Indeed. “What happens if cost growth exceeds projections, the way it has in Massachussetts, and AFAIK, every Federal health care program ever? Where do we get more money?”
- I’d suggest the biggest reason is on the evening news scientifically predicting the weather every day and getting it wrong so often.
- Catching Hillary being, well, not thinking exactly.
- A Soviet scientist.
- Russia’s schools.
- It’s not for their good, it’s to ease the possibility of our pain.
- Obamacare killed?
- This is something everyone should read … and then ponder Obama’s notion of a moderate Iran and the need to open relations with them.
- On the living Christian life.
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You’re right, our operations in Pakistan are not counterinsurgency per se. But as Petraeus’ Field Manual 3-24 points out, one rule of COIN is that you can’t let the enemy have a sanctuary.
Sending troops across the border would be a blatant violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, not to mention tremendously risky for the troops (get Chuck Norris movies out of your head).
Seen in that light, the Predator strikes are therefore a compromise.
I just wonder (tongue firmly in cheek) why the anti-war crowd isn’t screaming bloody murder? After all, they castigated Bush for attacking “a sovereign nation without UN authority!!!!!” But Pakistan is sovereign, and Congress, let alone the UN, haven’t authorized anything there.
It’s OK when a Democratic President does it. Didn’t you get the memo? 🙂