[Peace-discuss] International crime

[Morton K. Brussel]

I think the US, (Obama et al) would be crazy to make this major  
military escalation, especially at this time. The risks would seem  
enormous: Do they know how the strong Pakistani military would react,  
how the Pakistani people would react? Hence, I doubt this would occur.  
Clinton and cohort (Holbroke?, Petraeus?) are trying to bend  
Pakistan's policies to our ends by threats I think vacuous.  --mkb


On Apr 26, 2009, at 9:38 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> American military and intelligence forces already run limited ground  
> and air operations on Pakistani soil along the border with  
> Afghanistan. But an overt military operation such as that threatened  
> in Swat, away from the border, would mark a major escalation.
>
> The official said last week’s outspoken remarks by Hillary Clinton,  
> the US secretary of state, were “calculated to ramp up the pressure  
> on Pakistan” to take action. Clinton warned that the terrorists’  
> advance had created a “mortal threat” to world security.