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Politics : THE WHITE HOUSE
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (5246)5/31/2007 2:16:57 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 25737
 
All reports indicate our allied forces were only one or two days out at most from the airport.

Two days out is as good as a year out. To check you need to actually be there, and be in control.

Air was the only way for large numbers of the fighters to escape --- and the US Air Force had total control of the air. They had to receive *permission* to fly their transports in.

What would you do, shoot down Pakistani military transports? We needed the Pakistanis to even be able to deploy to the area.

And if we did check, we would be largely dependent on the Pakistanis for the information we would need to do the checks.

You post as if there was some simple way to control the situation and there wasn't.
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