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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Wrong. 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.
