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If Hezbollah joins the fray, as it looks like it might with its possible recent attacks on border installations, observers are noting this maybe unlike anything seen before and may overwhelm the air defenses. Interesting thread by Tyler Rogoway, a well informed commentator...

Trading with India is short term thinking and a cop out of addressing the real issues. Pakistan is an agricultural country, with the right policies and technology it can grow its yields to be just as competitive, and fund its own farmers. Trade with India is a slippery slope to dependency and...

Is the bottom picture the US? The smoker is wearing a pakol; not very common in the US.

Any reason why a domestic Pakistani company can’t rebuild the Hilux used by the FC in the way this Dubai based company has done. V-Hull Shape, and all round up armoring along with a protected turret. If they can’t do it, they might as well buy an order of 50 of these vehicles and develop a...

I could be misinformed. But if Olmert was so close, what happened?

Not fight but put pressure economically, suspend recognition, travel privileges to transit or visit for their citizens, etc.

Is this how it is being seen in China? How do Chinese people and/or China view this conflict, esp silly after having recently hosted the Palestinian President so recently in Beijing.

Begin was closer, and the Palestinians were better placed at that time.

so much for safe areas; he said everywhere.

Probably means Hamas killed enough of the informants so the word didn’t get out.

One person that probably feels vindicated today is Olmert. If you see any you would say are particularly egregious examples, please share them on this thread. So they can be shown to the Arab and Muslim masses.

A good start but I would hope Turkey under Erdogan calls a meeting of the OIC to make a united effort.

Really hoped they could have at least completed the last stretch from Sukkur to Hyderabad before the political $htf. Any indication if that is still happening anytime soon?

“Scavengers and Suck-up experts” as Nixon called them out to be.

Last months NPR Story (US media) about what has been going on before all this. The violence had no end in sight. The Arabs with their talk of normalization were giving the impression that they were abandoning the Palestinians, ending the one thing that kept things limited, Hope. Without hope for...

During the 2006 Lebanon war, the Arab street/masses started to respect Hezbollah, for their defiance, much to the chagrin of the monarchs. In the face of what was happening in Iraq since 2003, the Arab populations saw the difference and it created the ground swell that led to the Arab springs...

Saudi relations were broken but Saudis recognized Iran. It’s wasn’t to the level of what normalization with Israel would entail; to go from non-recognition to full recognition. Iran hosts no holy sites for most Muslims, while Jerusalem is Jerusalem. To recognize without a proper settlement is to...

And their disunity is giving more space for the Iranians to exploit. Iranians which they claim to be trying to contain. If only they put aside all other issues, were united in this cause to negotiate in a united manner, could they resolve the issue once and for all. Otherwise all external and...

Not since Salahuddin was the region united in a singular and meaningful way. Each local ruler wants to have full control while the Europeans (and East Asians) accepted their strength is their discipline (but also their rule of law and personal liberties to motivate them) and found a way to put...

Doubt these safe areas will remain safe for long. 2 million people in such a small area, this may turn into the pogrom the extreme right in Israel are hoping for. (Air strikes happened last time at intersections, claiming there were tunnels underneath, and many civilians died). Ultimately a...