re: #238 pre-Boomer Marine brat

This’ll fuel the formation of anti-Taliban lashkars. If the Pak Army’s smart, it’ll intensify big time its support of those tribesmen.

If the Indians are smart, they’ll pull large numbers of front-line troops back from the border and call in a third party (NOT the U.N. fer g*d’s sake) to monitor the stand-down.

If properly used by their opponents, these attacks against other Muslims could even be the essential death-knell of the Taliban as an organised, effective, fighting force.

/not rosey-tinted glasses … just seeing hopeful signs on LWJ

You won’t see an Indian pull back. They are there nowadays mostly to keep the Kashmiri terrorists out, and they aren’t going to pull back from that. The stance on Siachen is mostly symbolic, the troops are really there to keep the terrorists at bay.