Pakistani military ordered to attack Americans

Seriously?

Look, every nation has a right to its own territorial sovereignty, including Pakistan. But what exactly are they going to gain from this move? Let’s say that this actually happens and Americans are killed. The media over here is going to go into supercharge mode and describe it as Pakistan killing Americans to defend terrorists. Which they would be doing, sure, but not necessarily overtly. Then the President will scrap all of the US-Pakistani ties, put them back on the sanction list, withold their F-16s, and declare Pakistan a supporter of terrorism. Which they are obviously, but again not necessarily overtly. Play this game for six months to a year and the US forces in Afghanistan will be relocating in a southerly direction.

What I want to know is why they’d be this overtly belligerent. Yes, their territorial sovereignty should be respected. But aren’t there far more effective avenues they can pursue? Go to the UN with evidence that it was America. Or better yet, since that organization is totally incompetent, turn to China. With the US economy trying to go into the toilet, and probably succeeding, why not covertly inquire to China as to applying further economic pressure in return for access to information or technology stemming from Pakistan’s US ties?

This right here is why you need a small, VLO strike platform, by the way. Keeps troops off of the ground, gets in and out unseen, and can eliminate your target, preferably with either a DEW or a kinetic energy weapon to eliminate any presence being left behind. Or better yet, Rods from God. Same difference. But if we are going to go after terrorists and whatnot that our so-called allies value as friends, we need to seriously rethink the way we go about doing it. Avoids a lot of these problems, although the idea of Pakistan firing at Americans does seem like it may help America and India grow closer together over a common enemy and aid in a US design being offered at a lesser price and chosen for MMRCA in exchange for military cooepration.

Anyway, good on Pakistan for actually deciding to try and defend itself and those under its protection. I just wonder what the end result will be, given that any potential issue can be made into a massive incident thanks to the elections in the USA and/or a new President wanting to make a statement: Obama to show he is strong on defense and the war against Islamic extremism, or McCain to show that he is not abandoning the GOP’s position regarding the same issues.

Everybody wants a new Cold War, Britain adopts Sharia law, Russian satanists are eating teenagers, and now this. Who would’ve thought things would get so interesting towards the end of this year? I certainly didn’t.