Reuters: "U.S. considers expanding raids into Pakistan"

[Xicano]

Senior U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan are seeking to expand Special Operations ground raids into Pakistan, The New York Times reported on Monday.

The proposal would escalate military activities inside Pakistan and reflects growing frustration with Islamabad's efforts to root out militants in Pakistani tribal areas, the newspaper said, citing U.S. officials in Washington and Afghanistan.

Military commanders said using Special Operations troops could bring an intelligence windfall, if militants were captured and interrogated, it said.

A Pentagon spokesman had no comment on the report.

Such a proposal, if confirmed, could reflect the Obama Administration's eagerness to demonstrate progress in Afghanistan as it plans to start withdrawing a U.S. force of around 100,000 in the middle of 2011.

NATO allies too are beginning to signal an end to their combat roles in the unpopular nine-year-old war.



http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BK0E520101221?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

[Gravel Democrat]

1. even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming...

Some of us knew this was next and the record shows it

"Pakistan is the New Afghanistan which fell after Iraq which fell after Kosovo which fell after..."

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9278884



It wasn't an accident that the phrase "Af/Pak" slipped into the spinners dialog

Next we'll hear how we need to build roads and bridges...And how "we" will leave after 2012...

And there won't be many protests...

Because Rome wasn't built in a day

The wars will go on until the TV's go dark and the people are starving. Literally. Apparently. And even then...

[Hannah Bell]

2. they are already there, per many sources. i believe it was discussed in wikileaks also.

[KG]

3. well, what else could a peace prize winner do?

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