Vietnam is not Pakistan and Pakistan is not USA.

Viet nam is not Pakistan
and Pakistan is not USA.

Stepping it up.

In Vietnam US fought an indigenous
enemy, And used a traditional method
for metrics. 

Kill the enemy, And the Official body
count score card was born.

And the first stirrings of SysAdmin
began in the battle for the Hearts
and minds, and pacification was born.
And a form of Infowar deployed.

Many years later US tries again but
with some success this time.
Iraq, No body count but a concerted
effort to take out leadership and it has
some success, al-Zarqawi was killed
and al qaeda fell to pieces.

But in Iraq it was the indigenous who
went after al qaeda, They refused
to support them, gave them no place
to hide among the people, they decided
they wanted al qaeda out.

al qaeda never had a good Infowar operation
going in Iraq, and no Gov support.

Now in Pakistan, the Gov, Mil and key Intellience
agency run active Infowar against US .

Some of the Indigenous support the Talibn and
al qaeda, Give them a place to hid in public.

US has a selective attack paradigm, mid level
cadre, and its working the drones continually
wipe out Taliban mid level commanders and
its having an impact.
Taliban bringing extream pressure on Paki to 
to stop drones.


Paki is not USA.


I have a Movie script for you.
AGAIN I REPEAT A MOVIE SCRIPT:

Its 2011 and the US Navy finds an al qaeda
cell with in its ranks, and arrest them, holds
the Navy officers for questioning.

And Ossam Bin Laden is found living
30 miles from Wash. DC. and killed
by a secret team of commandos of the ISI.

al qaeda is able to track the holding locations
everywhere the suspected al qaeda are moved,
because of spys in the Navy.

al qaeda demands their release, and attacks
bus loads of trainees at Annapolis.

And attacks the Navys biggest Naval base,
and a 22 hr fire fight ensues, and 2 escape?

The US Navy negotiates with the Taliban
and agrees to release the suspected al qaeda
officers after interrogations.

al qaeda refuses and interrogations are postponed.

And al qaeda continues to attack US Military bases
across the US.

OK THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED IN PAKISTAN,
AND IS STILL ON GOING. Turn some of it
around and you see what a mess it is.
SOURCE:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/ME27Df06.html?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4de406715932c3ac,0


UPDATE: AUTHOR OF ABOVE ARTICLE

Saleem Shahzad

Has gone missing its believed ISI covertly

arrested him and has him in custody for

the above story.

Fits with whHat we have been saying about

ISI, G

HIS BODY HAS BEEN FOUND:
Signs of torture, SUSPECT KILLED FOR WRITING
ARTICLE ABOVE. G RIP. TRAGIC

Pakistan is not USA.

In USA the people would demand the country be
torn apart to find and kill the al qaeda.
ISI would have been thrown a ticker tape
parade in every city, and CIA and Navy would
be under heavy congressional Investigations.

What does Pakistan do?
Pakistan " unsees " what it cannot confront.
or won't confront or doesn't know how 
to confront.

Art of UNSEEING: Well worth the read,G
http://caravanmagazine.in/Story.aspx?StoryId=912


Since the al qada and Taliban have indigenous support
they have found a way to live with it.
The ISI run Infowar ops to create anti-American sentiment.
ISI runs ops to win the hearts and minds of insurgent
supporters and point them at the US.
While the ISI can't control the insurgents or their
supporters they can point the dogs at targets other
than themselves as an expedient.

The US Views the kinetic aspects of the war
against al qaeda as primary,
Just as they did in Vietnam.

SysAdmin force activities are co-opted by insurgents
if they have enough indigenous support.

The only way to turn Indigenous forces is by
Infowar, after the Indigenous are turned then
you have a chance with SysAdmin.

In Pakistan Infowar could be shifted to primary
position, backed by Drones.

Vietnam is not Pakistan
and Pakistan is not USA.

US still has not learned how to win over
INDIGENOUS, and the insurgents are
rocking with them.

"OBL was an agent of US"
"US behind Paki Navy base attack"
"Taliban al qaeda not terrorist"

Just really stupid shit, and they get away
with it.
ISI and insurgent infowars have so screwed
up civilians heads these ideas get purchase.
AQpk Ahmed Quraishi has done almost as
much damage to Paki minds as the Taliban.
http://www.PakNationalists.com

Good example of
just bull shit propaganda that sells.


US is still learning the Indigenous paradigm.
50 yrs and still don't have it down, closer,
better, not there yet.


Gerald
War Anthropologist