Die, Pakistan, Die.

[maxiep]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/09700746-c681-11e0-bb50-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V27sBUJm

I think it's high time we had the Indian PM over for an official State dinner. Perhaps we need to negotiate a new trade agreement with India as well. Finally, it's time we acknowledged that the disputed province is Jammu and not Kashmir.

If Pakistan continues to act in this fashion, then they need to be punished. And nothing scares them like a billion Indians with nuclear weapons who hate Pakistanis more than anything else. If they wish to side with the Chi-Coms, they can fight with their technology. They don't get ours.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I'm surprised they didn't blow it up before they left the compound.

 

[maxiep]

I'm surprised they didn't blow it up before they left the compound.

The explosion blew the tail outside the compound. Time was limited and the forces on the ground made a command decision. Regardless, Pakistan needs to pay for this transgression. Sure they're embarrassed that we trust them so little we didn't tell them about our raid, but giving our cutting edge military technology to the Chi-Coms? That's beyond the pale.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

The explosion blew the tail outside the compound. Time was limited and the forces on the ground made a command decision. Regardless, Pakistan needs to pay for this transgression. Sure they're embarrassed that we trust them so little we didn't tell them about our raid, but giving our cutting edge military technology to the Chi-Coms? That's beyond the pale.

I agree, but what are we going to really do about it?

 

[jlprk]

Exactly. The U.S. needs Pakistan (population 170 million) far more than Pakistan needs the U.S.

Any punishing would be from them to us, not the other way round. That's what the helicopter is about, after Congress cut off 1/3 of the money going to them. They can just throw us out any time they want, and that would bring the Afghan war to an immediate end.

The ft.com site really sucks. I can't read the article because no matter how I try to get in, it puts up an ad, I close it, and it takes me to the front page of ft.com. Then I click on the article, it puts up the ad, I close it, etc.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Exactly. The U.S. needs Pakistan (population 170 million) far more than Pakistan needs the U.S.

Agreed 100%

 

[Haakzilla]

...hook, line, and sinker! Keep takin' the bait sheeple of the US!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Pakistan is an ally and friend in the war on error.

 

[maxiep]

Pakistan's government and military are completely reliant on us for aid. If we pull it, then they have civil war.

The way you get their attention is to get closer to India. Unfortunately, this doesn't help: http://news.yahoo.com/us-apologises-diplomats-dirty-indians-200651304.html

 

[MrJayremmie]

Yeah that pissed me off.

But more so that Pakistan does that shit with the money they get from us that is keeping them alive as a state.

The technology matters little. China is hoping to learn how to build stealth. We are past that. China is known to only copy as they lack a lot of innovation due to an oppressive regime. I find China quite humorous, actually. Feels like a kick in the nuts if you are Chinese to know that your country is doing whatever it can to even get a glimpse at American technology, from hacking to spying and now to inspecting a fallen US helicopter.

Until they learn to think for themselves, they will never be anything.

At least the Soviets, after copying the US atomic bomb, started to think for themselves. They had their own shit and the US was constantly worrying about what they were up to.

 

[MARIS61]

At least the Soviets, after copying the US atomic bomb, started to think for themselves. They had their own shit and the US was constantly worrying about what they were up to.

Yeah, that worked out great for them.

Oh wait, their regime collapsed into bankruptcy and thugdom and is no longer even a player on the world stage.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Don't you think "Die, Pakistan, Die" is a little bit of an over-reaction?

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

...hook, line, and sinker! Keep takin' the bait sheeple of the US!

Nice, "sheeple" being used unironically. You win the internet.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Don't you think "Die, Pakistan, Die" is a little bit of an over-reaction?

Now that just made me laugh.

 

[maxiep]

Don't you think "Die, Pakistan, Die" is a little bit of an over-reaction?

Absolutely not. Fuck 'em.

 

[huevonkiller]

Boss.

I'm with Maxie I dislike these weirdos.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

Absolutely not. Fuck 'em.

I've missed your jingoist ultra-nationalism lately.

 

[maxiep]

I've missed your jingoist ultra-nationalism lately.

Yeah, I strangely have a problem when an "ally" decides to share some of our most sensitive military technology with the country that is trying to challenge us for global hegemony.

 

[jlprk]

Pakistan does that shit with the money they get from us that is keeping them alive as a state.

Wrong.

Pakistan's government and military are completely reliant on us for aid. If we pull it, then they have civil war.

Wrong. Pakistan used to get its arms from China but the U.S. got them to switch. They can change back whenever they want to.

The U.S. is quite reliant upon Pakistani goodwill to prosecute the Afghan war. Pakistan has the only safe roads to northeast Afghanistan, where the action is. Flying cargo instead of trucking has a prohibitive cost. As I said, if Pakistan gets irritated and won't let us keep on trucking, the war ends that day.

 

[MARIS61]

Yeah, I strangely have a problem when an "ally" decides to share some of our most sensitive military technology with the country that is trying to challenge us for global hegemony.

Who exactly is "us"?

 

[BrianFromWA]

Did anyone else see the title and think "The, Pakistan...The"?