The U.S's smartness is pretty much evident from their decision to attack the Least developed country in the world and not being able to win in almost 10 years.(Afgh)
Afghan territory heavily favors guerilla warfare. Americans are fighting an
ideology over there. That is the problem.
Also, Americans are not willing to bring heavy fire-power in to that region like they did in Iraq. They are trying to develop an Afghan army which would be able to carry out military operations on its own. Strategy is to let the Afghans fight other Afghans.
In addition, incompetence of Obama's administration is another issue. He kicked out Mullen who understood Afghanistan better than others and he (Obama) was planning exit from Afghanistan in 2011. He also thinks that Pakistan is responsible for all the problems in Afghanistan. He needs to get some reality check.
Now that Republicians have regained power, they will knock some sense in to Obama.
So imagine if the US could not take Afgh from the poorly armed band of militia, how could they ever think of Invading Pakistan and being successful with it. Remember The Taliban do not have Surface to Air Missiles of any sort. However, Pakistan is swarmed with domestically manufactured portable SAMs which could turn the tide of the battle as we saw pretty clearly in the Afgh War.
Brother, try to understand ground realities.
Taliban lost lot of men during the 'Shock and Awe' phase of OEF in Afghanistan. Why did this happen? Taliban attempted to engage Americans in the open. In the end, Taliban government fell and the survivors escaped in to designated safe-havens.
Read more about it here:
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
Now these survivors have re-organized resistance movement and they conduct
covert operations against the invaders and the puppet Afghan government. We use the term 'guerilla warfare' to explain these actions.
Still Afghanistan has nothing significant to loose from the war as it is already a crippled state.
On the contrary, see the case of Iraq where Americans have achieved victory. My point is that
properly functioning economies have got to loose a lot in case of a war.
Pakistan is far more developed in comparison to Afghanistan. We have got to take care of billions of dollars worth of infrastructure in Pakistan, upon which our survival depends. We don't want to go back to 'stone age'. This is not what Qaid-e-Azam (founder of Pakistan) strived for. I guess you understand my point.
Also, our SAM capabilies are not very potent. Anza III firing range is around 15 km. The best SAM systems in our inventory probably have a range of around 30 km and we have these in very few quantities.
We need to first realize our weaknesses and try to overcome them. If we would continue to think that we currently are in a good shape than this would be our undoing. We need to progress and become a powerful nation like China. Only than, we would be able to successfully protect our interests from all kinds of threats. Strong economy paves way for strong deterrence.
.. This topic is pure rubbish, perhaps some people do wish that was the case however even if it was, it would eventually disappoint them.
Topic is not rubbish. If a former US president is saying something against Pakistan than that concerns us.
Not to mention the Nukes... Pakistan could easily target Israel and I think we all know that Israel is the Parrot within which America's soul rests. So taking out the beast means simply taking out the Parrot.
... and how could we ever forget The CROW on our eastern border... lol
Hum toh Doobay hein sanam, tumko bhee saath lein doobein gey..U get it now why Pakistan would attack Israel and India in such a scenario?
Yes! This is a great Trump Card for us. Nuclear deterrence does have its benefits. Thanks to our scientists.
