Yeah well all I have to say about Pakistan government, is look how may times them and India have turned to the US/UK and Soviet/Russia/China over the past 50 years for supplies. When your ruling government really rules the few large cities in the country and the countryside are ruled by local tribial leader/warlords or whatever you wish to call them. The people who are in the central government are there because they weren't strong enough for their own ambitions local, and nationally well when people get assassinated with regular frequency.
Sad thing is that with many nations it how it is. Their a central government set up in the Capital and they have limited control in many of the other larger cities/towns of the country, but the out in the countryside it the local 'bandits' who rule. Even in the so called Industrialized Nations there are still areas where the government has very little say what goes on. Russia and China have this problem quite regular, but due to the way their government control what is reported, you don't hear about it much. When we do hear about it, then it show the magnitude of the problem. Kinda sad the Russia can't defeat a so called rebel force within their borders, but they can roll over Georgia who by rights of NATO being in the process of joining should of got more support than lip service from Brussel.
Even in the US with the FBI which control the crime stats. that get published they pick and choose what crimes they really report. There is reason why Intermodel trains traffic has increase over the years. Just sad that at the same time other commercial trucking has picked up just as fast. There are reason why some trucking companies run their trucks in mini-convoy style of 3 or trucks, and why in some area they may be spread out for a couple miles and in other locales they are grouped and stay together.....
I for one do support the troops, used to be one them. The war in Iraq was expensive side-show and took away the focus of the one already in progress. In the end that led to both missions succeeding in limited objectives, but missing the mark in the overall objective in making the world a tad bit safer for everyone. Oh well not wanting to start a flame war...
Just some thoughts...
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