At any rate, tell Palain to keep talking and winking. Every time she does, its another nail in the coffin of the McCain campaign.

Bit. Dude! You have been absent from the Palin threads. Thought you were going to meet me after the debate to gloat...

You're going to find I very seldom gloat... even when the person I'm gloating over, richly deserves it, as in this case.

Why are we there again? Oh yea, it's the phony War On Terror Bullshit that's bankrupted and destroyed the USA.

lol and I thought it is was the liberals, well you live and you learn.

The answer to the question is obviously, They are on their own side.

That sounds about right. Pakistan will cooperate with us to a certain extent based on their own perceived interests. Their leader have to weight the risk/reward equation domestically.

Bit. Dude! You have been absent from the Palin threads. Thought you were going to meet me after the debate to gloat...

An Ipsos/McClatchy poll found that Gov. Sarah Palin's performance in last week's vice presidential debate actually hurt her running mate, Sen. John McCain, among undecided voters.

Before the debate, undecided voters were leaning 56% to 44% for McCain. The day after the debate, the numbers tilted 52% to 48% for Sen. Barack Obama.

Said pollster Clifford Young: "It's suggesting an overall tendency of undecideds toward Obama, so it is significant. We're catching an underlying trend that's going on."

The poll also found that Sen. Joe Biden won the debate, 54% to 46%.

We’re making legitimate progress, I think, about Taliban and al Qaeda forces in the border region but we may be doing it at too high a price.

Attacking enemy forces on the other side of an international border is a tactical option with possibly serious diplomatic ramifications. As such, I do not think such a decision should be made by the in theater generals alone (their job, is to kill the enemy). I realize there are problems with the time it takes for such things to go up the chain of command but how long does it take to make a phone call to the SecDef, who by virtue of his position in the cabinet will be far more in tune to the diplomatic blow back?

As best I can recall there have only been 2 instances where the attacks inflicted serious casualties (high value targets)upon the Taliban. The majority have done little more than incense the locals and increase the political pressure upon the Pakistani Gov't to disassociate themselves from us.

a growing number of experts are asking, Whose side is Pakistan really on?

I recall an old saw that goes, "You can not buy an Afghan, but you sure can rent one." I am sure the same can be said of a Pakistani. We are "renting" them but they apply a cost benefit analysis to that relationship that does not mirror our own.

The answer to the question is obviously, They are on their own side.

Maybe they will make a protest to the UN- The Taliban are unusually angry about the latest suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, a sign a top militant may have......