Pakistan Pushes Back

Quick aside: If you're interested I put up a poll on the right column for those who want to express who they support in 2012. Comment if you feel other names should be added for the next poll or other poll question suggestions. Back to business:

We continue to fight and chase down insurgents, sometimes with fuck ups, along the AfPak border. Right now though we have a massive nightmare of our supply lines through Pakistan being bottlenecked and halted in the old nightmare scenario that left them vulnerable to insurgent attacks before.

We have political candidates openly talking about covert operations in progress and as proposals that are having effects on current relations on our relationship with Pakistan. We have military and covert assets in harms way, more than ever attempting to achieve the goals set out for them in spite of the American Idol electoral system we've established in spite of our electoral system. We're putting the lives of some of our most dedicated agents, assets, and operatives in danger over politics... with lives being lost and lord knows what else in the shadows.

The current candidates in the GOP need to heed the warnings of their more experienced peers, including Jon Huntsman, and not put their campaigns above the lives of operatives and assets in the field. As much as many conservatives may despise Obama, their political disagreements do not justify trading votes for the lives of those who fight in the darkest and most dangerous trenches the war on terror has to offer in covert operations.

Just sayin'.