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Coolie U should not speak ill of Pakistan...Mushareef has had 2 assination attempts against his life this year for supporting the US. He has had t go against his own Intellignece forces...and he is between a rock and a hard place...

If you know anything about Afgan/ Pakistan you would know that Wazristan has ALWAYS been tribal and an especially lawless place. No government has EVER controled that region...and there really is no border up there...

The central dynamic about Afganistan is that it has always been controled by warlords, who have had a nonimal King. Afgans are noted for fighting among themselves until they are invaded then they all band together to expel the invader and once that is done they happily go back to fighting among themselves.

Thus the way the Bush Administraation handled the elimination of the Taliban was masterfull...We had less than 200 Special Forces on the ground backed by airpower, in alliance with the Northern Alliance. What Bin Laden thought was that the US was going to put a large number of ground troops in Afgan and he would summmon his old Muhadjean forces to defeat the US like they defeated the Soviets.