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Well, to put this finely, the tactical scope available to the Pakistanis is much larger. That's the 'very, very ugly' part. This will be more like a full civil war than a few minor pacification campaigns.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Nov 1st, 2009 at 05:51:53 PM EST
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May be, but I have my doubts that they are much better at identifying the guerillas who melt back into the population in that area. In addition, the Waziristan Taliban probably has much better intel from within the Pakistani army than the Afghan arm on the movements of the Americans (and the Mujaheddin on the Soviets before them).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Nov 2nd, 2009 at 04:46:44 PM EST
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