It’s also worth noting, for the parochial amongst us, that the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico have been effectively settled for over 150 years and there are still minor disputes about them.
The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is no more than a dotted line left behind by the the British Empire.
Aren’t these some of the same ppl that cause trouble for Pakistan? I agree with those upthread - Pakistan looks the other way, but has to throw a fit if someone catches NATO at this. They don’t want anyone thinking they’re complicit in it, for fear the riots and/or assassination attempts will commence.
Pakistan has been playing both sides off the middle since the very beginning. They give only so much cooperation to maintain their publicly hated but privately prized alliance with the US but at the same time ensure that the Afghan Taliban are kept as a viable military and political force in the Afghanistan scene so that Pakistan has leverage over any future peace deal/unity government. That’s why the Pakistani Army only goes after the Pakistani Taliban (whose very existence is poetic justice blowback from their strategy) and not the Afghan Taliban, as well as why they rounded up several high-level Afghan Taliban leaders and either turned them loose shortly after, with a warning not to conduct peace negotiations without Pakistani involvement, or are refusing to hand them over to the US. And all of these mechinations are designed solely as a paranoid measure against India.
However the war in Afghanistan ends, once the US has pulled its forces out, the US should cut all financial, military, and humanitarian aid ties with Pakistan. It’s time that the US backed its more natural ally in the region - India.
The main reason Pakistan has to make a fuss is that if they don’t it sets a very dangerous precedent - i.e. that a nation in “hot pursuit” of bad guys can cross Pakistan’s border - as this will be exploited by India.
Although some Pakistanis dislike America, they pretty much all really really dislike India, and they don’t want to give Indian troops even a sniff of an excuse to cross over the border.
A bit extreme don’t you think? I believe a makeup blowjob would be more in line with thier transgressions against me; it’s not like I’d want to have children with Pakistan after all and I’d really like to just stay friends.
War is hell; shit happens. Perhaps if they’d contol thier own borders innocents wouldn’t die. And whose word are you taking that they are innocents; the very people harboring and supporting the fighters that are crossing the borders and attacking US troops? They don’t have to be thrilled, just give up the bin Laden and look how fast we will leave. Go ahead and let him become a marytor; oh wait he’s not ready to face Allah yet, better to let some young innocents do that first.