Pakistan

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
-James Madison
"War is not so much a matter of weapons as of money." -Thucydides
"Originally war was nothing but a struggle for pasture grounds. To-day war is nothing but a struggle for the riches of nature. By virtue of an inherent law, these riches belong to him who conquers them." -Adolf Hitler
The United States of America is an Empire, and to maintain an Empire one must spill blood from time to time. What is currently transpiring in the Pashtun areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan is such a blood letting session. The Pashtuns are a proud, tenacious and tribal people that, much like the Chechens, don't really give a flying fuck who they are fighting. Their society is so prepared for conflict that its a cornerstone of their culture. Pashtunwali is the code by which they live and it leaves no room for ambiguity. When the countries of Pakistan and Afghanistan came into being it effectively cut the Pasthun community in two, at least on maps. In reality however the thousand year old bonds that form the foundation of this community means they generally ignore the border unless they are using to flee attack from one side to the other. Like many people in their area, the Pashtuns understand very well that if you want to keep your land you have to fight for it, this is just how things work in this part of the world. As the confrontation between the Pakistani military and the Taliban reaches new levels of animosity and violence, the likelihood of a full scale civil war (although in reality more of a ethnic war) is going to erupt grows daily. The nature of asymmetrical warfare necessitates extreme tactics like suicide bombings, guerrilla warfare, and sabotage. Well, one things you gotta say for the Americans, we generally start wars with pretty tough people. We killed a third of Vietnam, and they didn't give up. The Pashtuns are just as hardcore, if not more so. Don't think that the Pashtuns don't have friends, for the Balochi whose territory is virtually half of Pakistan, are sympathetic and also hostile to the government. Although we aren't trying to occupy the region like the Ruskies did, we are setting up strategic bases to use potentially against Iran or China. We are there to exercise our Imperial prerogative. A people does not sink a large portion of their capital for 60 years and not utilize it... its just simply not done. But don't worry my fellow Americans, these people love killing each other and will surely continue doing so long after we are gone. We just have to try our hand and ruling Eurasia, every truly great Empire has to try it once. With our unprecedented military and technological advantage we might make a go of it, for awhile.
"Haha.. you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia."-Vizzini in The Princess Bride

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