{"id":194534,"date":"2008-09-15T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/15\/pakistani-forces-now-clashing-with-us-forces\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T04:17:00","slug":"pakistani-forces-now-clashing-with-us-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/15\/pakistani-forces-now-clashing-with-us-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Forces Now Clashing with US Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now seeing reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2008\/09\/the-us-isnt-in.html\">Pakistani troops are firing on US troops<\/a>, and the Pakistani military is saying that they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/15\/asia\/16pakistanFW.php\">repelled a US border incursion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is why it was so disasterous to take our eye off the ball in Afghanistan.  There was a limited window in which to act, and the window is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">at best<\/span> rapidly closing at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now seeing reports that Pakistani troops are firing on US troops, and the Pakistani military is saying that they repelled a US border incursion. This is why it was so disasterous to take our eye off the ball in Afghanistan. There was a limited window in which to act, and the window is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1151,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-south-asia","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}