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Reader comment on item: U.S.-Pakistan Relations in Decline
in response to reader comment: Taliban will retake Afghanistan
Submitted by Peter Herz (United States), May 8, 2011 at 20:07
That the South Vietnamese were unwilling to fight for themselves is a myth designed to enhance the image of the "inevitable" triumph of Marxism-Leninism. We cut off the aid and began withdrawal in 1973, and it took the North Vietnamese regulars two years to conquer the South. Doesn't seem so bad when compared with our "Fighting French" allies in World War II, who collapsed in a matter of weeks.
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| 2 | No space for Pakistan on this website [122 words] w/response from Daniel Pipes | B.N.Gururaj | May 18, 2011 00:27 | 185322 | |
 Stepping Stones to a Greater Threat [277 words] | M. Tovey | May 23, 2011 19:17 | 185322 | ||
| The Stick to Dance the Lion! [23 words] | Mohammad Mansoor Ali Ansari | Oct 14, 2011 03:13 | 185322 | ||
| US PAKISTAN REALTIONS IN DECLINE [209 words] | Isaac | May 15, 2011 04:29 | 185210 | ||
| Counterfeit Christians [229 words] | kerusso alethes | May 12, 2011 15:21 | 185148 | ||
| 1 | What the TRUTH of the WORD of the LORD Declares [554 words] | M. Tovey | May 20, 2011 18:21 | 185148 | |
| Truth versus Fiction [58 words] | kerusso alethes | May 23, 2011 13:58 | 185148 | ||
| A Book of Human Logic Cannot Counter What Holy Spirit has Declared Truth by the Word of Jesus Christ. [24 words] | M. Tovey | May 23, 2011 19:21 | 185148 | ||
| Hebrew Holy Bible Contains No Fiction [103 words] | M. Tovey | May 24, 2011 19:23 | 185148 | ||
| Authenticity [319 words] | kerusso alethes | May 26, 2011 15:37 | 185148 | ||
| Paul the Corrupter [174 words] | kerusso alethes | May 27, 2011 13:16 | 185148 | ||
| Authenticity of Paul Provided By the Holy Spirit [871 words] | M. Tovey | May 31, 2011 14:31 | 185148 | ||
| The parakletos and Paul? [456 words] | kerusso alethes | Jun 2, 2011 12:40 | 185148 | ||
| Getting Scripture Right by the Words of Jesus Christ [292 words] | M. Tovey | Jun 2, 2011 18:27 | 185148 | ||
| Jesus also taught: Salvation is Conditional. [181 words] | kerusso alethes | Jun 6, 2011 08:38 | 185148 | ||
| More on the Upper Room Discourse - Jesus' Love is Unconditional - Salvation the Guarantee [976 words] | M. Tovey | Jun 9, 2011 13:30 | 185148 | ||
| Without Paul — [185 words] | kerusso alethes | Jun 10, 2011 14:55 | 185148 | ||
| One Gospel Only - To Be Preached To All the World - To Pakistan and Everywhere [830 words] | M. Tovey | Jun 13, 2011 15:54 | 185148 | ||
| Confusion; the real enemy. [405 words] | kerusso alethes | Jun 17, 2011 12:27 | 185148 | ||
| 1 | Tooled Against Confusion - Ephesians 6:10-17 [636 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 5, 2011 13:11 | 185148 | |
| Hardy Hatred. [802 words] | kerusso alethes | Jul 19, 2011 21:19 | 185148 | ||
| 1 | Paul's Authentication Scripturally Sound - By His Demonstrated Love for Jesus Christ [779 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 21, 2011 19:15 | 185148 | |
| By thy words … [465 words] | kerusso alethes | Jul 25, 2011 14:12 | 185148 | ||
| By the WORD of the LORD [230 words] | M. Tovey | Jul 25, 2011 18:25 | 185148 | ||
| Pakistan and Terrorism [165 words] | Frank Luke | May 10, 2011 21:28 | 185088 | ||
| 1 | Declare Pakistan a 'Terrorist State" [189 words] | kamekish | May 9, 2011 02:31 | 185042 | |
| Containment of Pakistan? [60 words] | Kepha Hor | May 8, 2011 20:20 | 185030 | ||
| U.S.-Pakistan Relations in Decline - comment [17 words] | richard | May 8, 2011 18:48 | 185027 | ||
| 2 | Taliban will retake Afghanistan [156 words] | Leonard Markowitz | May 7, 2011 17:56 | 185000 | |
 Perhaps, but... [69 words] | Peter Herz | May 8, 2011 20:07 | 185000 | ||
| Pakistan and Afganistan and the USA [8 words] | richard | May 10, 2011 01:46 | 185000 | ||
| Good [31 words] | Diplomad | May 7, 2011 17:55 | 184999 | ||
| 2 | The Pakistan Conundrum [143 words] | Frank Luke | May 5, 2011 20:15 | 184929 | |
| Time to recover the cost of terrorism from Pak Military [123 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 8, 2011 04:05 | 184929 | ||
| 1 | Today Pakistan - From Whence the Next Enigma - The American Dilemma [821 words] | M. Tovey | May 10, 2011 12:11 | 184929 | |
| 9 | Wishful Thinking [223 words] | Shadi Katyal | May 5, 2011 10:04 | 184912 | |
| 5 | I agree, leaving any remnant of that helicopter was a grave error in judgement [70 words] | sara | May 5, 2011 18:54 | 184912 | |
| Good point [243 words] | Vijay | May 9, 2011 08:23 | 184912 | ||
| us pakistan relationson the decline [134 words] | Isaac Flaks | May 5, 2011 09:48 | 184911 | ||
| 1 | living with illusions [4 words] | ania | May 5, 2011 06:41 | 184903 | |
| 1 | Time for an American Awakening [133 words] | Benjamin Medved | May 5, 2011 00:42 | 184894 | |
| The world community failed to detect OBL, Pakistan alone is not to be blamed. [176 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 8, 2011 04:40 | 184894 | ||
| U.S.-Pakistan Relations in Decline [11 words] | Sol | May 4, 2011 23:38 | 184890 | ||
| 2 | Pakistan not allies [97 words] | Lorenz Gude | May 4, 2011 23:10 | 184889 | |
| For Bad over Good [41 words] | Jay1 | May 4, 2011 22:03 | 184887 | ||
| 1 | Priorities!!!!!!! [57 words] | Susan Somerville | May 4, 2011 21:23 | 184884 | |
| 2 | Pakistan-American Enemy [61 words] | John Wright | May 4, 2011 21:07 | 184882 | |
| there is difference [13 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 13:54 | 184882 | ||
| Now recover damages from Pakistan [307 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:09 | 184882 | ||
| 1 | U.S. Pakistan Relations Decline...How could they not know? response to John Wright. [98 words] | Anne- USA | May 9, 2011 13:31 | 184882 | |
| 1 | rue [5 words] | richard | May 10, 2011 01:48 | 184882 | |
| 2 | What do they say in URDU. [123 words] | batya dagan | May 4, 2011 20:19 | 184877 | |
| Now recover damages from Pakistan, stop Charity is not enogh. [431 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:29 | 184877 | ||
| 1 | +I will never forget what they did to Mumbai. [122 words] | batya dagan | May 8, 2011 18:27 | 184877 | |
| Reality check [82 words] | Rebecca Moulds | May 4, 2011 20:10 | 184876 | ||
| All Pakistanis are enemy [30 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:05 | 184876 | ||
| 1 | Contain Islam. [103 words] | Charlie Griffith | May 4, 2011 20:09 | 184875 | |
| Is it Religion or disease? [59 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 8, 2011 05:10 | 184875 | ||
| 1 | We Indians should attack Pak ASAP and get all the terrorists [105 words] | adam eve | May 4, 2011 19:43 | 184874 | |
| 2 | The Case For Pakistan [216 words] | John in Michigan, USA | May 4, 2011 18:46 | 184872 | |
| Russian Paranoia !!! [71 words] | Carlos de Souza | May 4, 2011 23:10 | 184872 | ||
| 1 | Not paranoia, just skepticism [281 words] | John in Michigan, USA | May 5, 2011 23:31 | 184872 | |
| 10 | The one thing that REALLY Scares the Pakistanis [106 words] | Richard Benkin | May 4, 2011 18:20 | 184870 | |
| 3 | Kepp India out of this Pakistani quagmire. [71 words] | Kamath | May 5, 2011 08:56 | 184870 | |
| Once upon a time [27 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:00 | 184870 | ||
| Pipe's comments [6 words] | Syd | May 4, 2011 18:17 | 184869 | ||
| 1 | Diplomatic Quid Pro Quo [23 words] | David | May 4, 2011 18:03 | 184867 | |
| Majority of Pashtuns Already Disaffected - Why Does the US Still Try? How Many Megatons Does 4,5 Bil Buy? [62 words] | M. Tovey | May 4, 2011 12:17 | 184861 | ||
| 4 | Pakistan As Danger Zone [81 words] | Virginia Gentleman | May 4, 2011 08:32 | 184851 | |
| 2 | SINK or SWIM [101 words] | Carolina Angel | May 5, 2011 08:49 | 184851 | |
| 9 | Pakistan is our enemy and it should be declared as a terrorist state [116 words] | dhimmi no more | May 4, 2011 06:48 | 184848 | |
| 2 | But is that practical, dhimmi no more? [195 words] | Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi | May 7, 2011 12:46 | 184848 | |
| Blame Game is national Game of Pakistan [124 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:34 | 184848 | ||
| What Muhammad did to Khaibar [230 words] | Ted | May 7, 2011 16:42 | 184848 | ||
| 3 | Salvation history [742 words] | dhimmi no more | May 8, 2011 11:26 | 184848 | |
| 2 | Pakistan is a terrorist state [525 words] | dhimmi no more | May 9, 2011 06:21 | 184848 | |
| 1 | Q78:31-34 [338 words] | dhimmi no more | Jun 30, 2011 19:47 | 184848 | |
| slight correction [20 words] | dhimmi no more | Jul 1, 2011 06:06 | 184848 | ||
| 8 | Anything positive in Pakistan [169 words] | Ted | May 4, 2011 01:33 | 184839 | |
| Now recover damages from Pakistan, stop Charity is not enogh. [17 words] | Ravi Ranjan Singh Bharat Panthi | May 7, 2011 14:45 | 184839 | ||
| 6 | Time for Truth [612 words] | Fred Baehr | May 4, 2011 00:55 | 184836 | |
| 2 | Always [28 words] | Michael Sharp | May 3, 2011 23:41 | 184833 |
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