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ARTICLE: Pakistani troops capture militant stronghold, AP, Oct. 26, 2008
Either way you spray, the roaches will shift to the other side of the border, meaning--eventually--somebody commits to the full kill of the unredeemables and the co-optation of the locals you've got to live with.
(Thanks: Jeff Jennings)
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Key goal. Draw roaches to go where and when it is most suitable for the Clarke guy and customers, and perhaps to take the poison bait back to main nests.
Posted by Louis Heberlein | October 29, 2008 3:30 PM
I just finished Winston Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force" which almost exactly parallels the current situation in Pakistan down to the particular tribes and valleys. It's a short read, fraught with talk of Empire, but has a very interesting political analysis. The book is available free from Project Gutenberg; I got it from manybooks.net in Amazon Kindle format (again, free; linked above.)
It reminds me of Twain's line "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Posted by arclight | October 30, 2008 12:35 PM