Funny, that you think that Pakistan can handle the most powerful country in the world.
Funny you mention that, cuz I have not claimed it anywhere in my posts, rather on the contrary, Please do learn to read posts for the sake of understanding and replying, not for the sake of Arguments..
Reality check: USA and Pakistan played a vital role in ensuring that the strategic objectives of USSR would not be met in Afghanistan.
Reality Check:And you think that Russia and China would want two destabilized countries in their neighbouring region with number of extremist groups wandering at will?
Hence, no chance of them letting USA Indulge itself in full-frontal war against Pakistan without dire consequences.. If US was to invade Pakistan, why not use the chance to bring it down from its “high horse”.. “Economically” weaker USA will have less chance of “dominating” the world including China and Russia as it is able to do now.. Which is exactly my point..
In addition, USSR militarily performed much more poorly in comparison to US in Afghanistan.
USSR casualties:
- 15000 dead
- 469,685 wounded
US casualties:
Notice the difference?
You missed the whole point my friend.. or it selective reading?.. Let me remind you, this is what followed the line, which you “selectively” chose to respond:
Pakistan cannot have a FLAGGED VICTORY, but it can drag the war so long, and can send so many "body bags" that US economy is not going to be able to sustain itself..
The point is not Pakistan’s victory, the point I mentioned was related to US and US only..
Notice the difference?
Also, USSR was economically much weaker then US. Furthermore, USSR was also suffering from internal ideological crises.
I am well aware of that, I have lived through the times when USSR-Afghan war was going on.. And if you are not aware of it, internal destabilizing of USSR was also done by “external” players.. and it took around a decade, before the start of Soviet-Afghan war..
By comparison, US simultaneously fought a full scale war in Iraq and also participated in UN backed operations in Libya apart from OEF in Afghanistan.
Why don't you read the history of USSR first and then draw parrallels with USA?
Cold War Museum
USSR disintegrated mainly due to its significant internal problems (ideological based in particular), and very poor economic activity.
By comparison, US is internally much more stable. And US industry base is also very strong.
It seems that you like to post links instead of using any logical reasoning on present facts. Okay, here I’ll use some “links” to clarify my point.. Hope you could understand them..
As I said before, these are two different ball games, US’s economic situations are different in both scenarios, I take that you have no idea what war does to the economy of a country in long run or in a broader scenario, or what WoT did to Global economy.. here is a little peak for you:
Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S Economy
Money trail links the WoT to Global Financial crises
Hence, a change in approach by different countries, organizations, bankers and so on:
Ten Major Threats Facing the US Dollar
Notice the uncertainty?
And now US goes after Libya isn’t it? Look at the results..
Gold gains on dollar drop, oil rise, geoPolitics
Resultantly, Have a look at the growth rate of US, its going down year by year:
USA GDP Growth rate
And Obviously,
US National Debt Chart
You can see that the rash climb is from early 70s.. exactly the time when "external" factors started playing in "internal" affairs or USSR and later cold-war started coming nearer to hot-war in Afghanistan.
You can say that US has been able to sustain it far longer than USSR, but in no way you can claim that US has survived from it, or recovered from it.
The situation of Debt is so dire that
It is now mathematically impossible to pay off the US National debt.
On the other hand, there hasn’t been any prominent development in “the big four” in the same period of time.. Have a look for yourself..
Pension, Health, Education, Defence
Yes, US will not open a new front until Iraq and Afghanistan are sorted out. However, this is not due to lack of capability but due to resolving existing issues. This is why responsibility of Libyan front has been handed over to NATO.
All I can say is LOL, do you think that Afghan and Iraq fronts are going to close down so easily? It would take another decade before it is taken as resolved, and yes, it IS due to lack of capability that US is not going to commit to full-frontal war with Pakistan, though not military but economic capability.
I disagree. As long as Taliban and its affiliates are active here and US is engaged in Afghanistan, US will continue to do what it wants to do inside Pakistan.
That time is passing quickly, streams of prominent political and military figures running from US to Pakistan shows who is going to dictate terms from now on if these “friendly” relations between US and Pakistan are going to carry on, anyways, you can still live in your la-la land, in short, your masters are losing Global Support big time.
As I said before, US in NOT in a condition to go in a full-frontal war against Pakistan. Too many probabilities, threat ratio is too high..
THAT is the ONLY reason there is NOT going to be any war..
Just my two cents..