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.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. Game Servers (Read Only) => Discussion => Topic started by: Nemisous on November 27, 2011, 10:52:02 AM
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Pakistan has given the US 15 days to vacate an airbase used as a key launchpad for drone strikes in Afghanistan in retaliation for a mistaken attack on a Pakistani border outpost that killed at least 24 soldiers and injured 13.
American forces were told to leave the remote Shamsi airbase, secretly given over to the US after 9/11, following an emergency meeting of Pakistan’s top civilian and military leadership late on Saturday. Pakistan has also blocked supply routes for US-led troops in Afghanistan.
Shamsi was used heavily for launching the war in Afghanistan in late 2001, and later served as the base for the US drone programme. Set in sparsely populated desert in the western Baluchistan province, Shamsi is highly controversial within Pakistan for its association with drones, which Islamabad officially condemns.
The decision of the country’s defence committee of the cabinet is an admission that Shamsi remains in American hands. The committee announced that the government would “revisit and undertake a complete review of all programmes, activities and co-operative arrangements” with the US, and US-led forces in Afghanistan, “including diplomatic, political, military and intelligence”.
Read full report here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/27/pakistan-orders-us-leave-shamsi-airbase (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/27/pakistan-orders-us-leave-shamsi-airbase)
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Pack your bags Amerifags time for another war. One against the allied powers of Afghanistan and Iran.
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Pack your bags Amerifags time for another war. One against the allied powers of Afghanistan and Iran.
i just find it retarded that the US is in a debt crisis and they are looking for new wars to fight.
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i just find it retarded that the US is in a debt crisis and they are looking for new wars to fight.
They make money from wars.
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i just find it retarded that the US is in a debt crisis and they are looking for new wars to fight.
WWII got the US out of the Great Depression.
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@Frank and
WWII got the US out of the Great Depression.
Not all the time, not a war that's dragged out this long.
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Indeed, gotta love the millitary industrial complex.
but as Tiger said... WWII got the US out of the great depression; though if we want to go through historical context wars have also ended up bankrupting the people.
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They make money from wars.
not quite, the defence companies make money from war, because that is how they sell their product, now in Iraq's case the oil companies make the big bucks and the US gets a small percentage of their profit for security, but the gains the US make is completely offset compared to the lose of American lives and the huge war debt we have now obtained.
@tiger guy, yes because back then we were a nation that produced and we were the number one oil supplier, and we could out produce the germans, now its alot differant.
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Using massacre to describe an accident is misleading .-.
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Using massacre to describe an accident is misleading .-.
yah but this seems to be an re occurring indecent, hell over the past 6 months 60 pakistani soldiers have lost their lives in these accidental drone strikes not including the large loss of civilian lives.
[edit] im sorry i was mistaken it was over the past 9 months my math was wrong XD
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Using massacre to describe an accident is misleading .-.
Accident is when, even after doing everything right, something fails. I doubt this is the case.
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Accident is when, even after doing everything right, something fails. I doubt this is the case.
indeed, this is the 4th time this year drone strike have accidentally hit Pakistani military outposts on the boarder.
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@Deacon why would you -1 me for making a statement? It wasn't supposed to be directed at one group...
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@Deacon why would you -1 me for making a statement? It wasn't supposed to be directed at one group...
Poor choice in language.
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@Deacon why would you -1 me for making a statement? It wasn't supposed to be directed at one group...
eh, some people cant take jokes.
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Poor choice in language.
I disagree, I feel that type of language (while seen by some to be rude and vulgar) accurately conveyed the point I was trying to make (a sarcastic take on the political side of our military).