{"id":194640,"date":"2008-09-03T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/03\/nato-conducts-raid-inside-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:14:00","slug":"nato-conducts-raid-inside-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/03\/nato-conducts-raid-inside-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Conducts Raid Inside Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/04\/world\/asia\/04attack.html?bl&amp;ex=1220587200&amp;en=a5543a98005b8c75&amp;ei=5087%0A\">piss off an essential ally against terrorism in the region<\/a>, by sending in a helicopter based infantry assault, and killing some number of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this is the start of a new policy, a statement of displeasure regarding Pakistan&#8217;s Ramadan cease fire, or some attempt to gin up something for the us elections, but in either case, the consequences, in terms of destabilizing a nuclear armed Pakistan, are very concerning.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this was <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> the NATO force that did this, as, &#8220;American troops in Afghanistan operate under a NATO chain of command, the Special Operations forces who carried out this attack answer only to American commanders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, this does not bode well for US-Pakistani relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way to piss off an essential ally against terrorism in the region, by sending in a helicopter based infantry assault, and killing some number of civilians. I&#8217;m not sure if this is the start of a new policy, a statement of displeasure regarding Pakistan&#8217;s Ramadan cease fire, or some attempt to gin up something for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,1006,1151,982,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-military","category-south-asia","category-stupid","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194640"}],"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=194640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}