Will The Deaths Of 50 US Soldiers Get Their Attention?

U.S. soldiers leave Combat Outpost Giro in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, July 23, 2012. The soldiers are assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division's 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrew Baker

America To Take Haqqani Network, Pakistan Seriously -- Threat Matrix

This July 31 article in The New York Times displays the horse-has-left-the-barn mentality that is prevalent in higher echelons of the US government when it comes to terrorist threats and Pakistan. According to the report, the US government won't take the threat of the Haqqani Network and Pakistan's support of the terror group seriously unless another mass-casualty attack occurs against US forces in Afghanistan.

But a new boldness from the Haqqanis that aims at mass American casualties, combined with simmering political tension, has reduced the room for ambiguity between the two countries. Inside the administration, it is a commonly held view that the United States is "one major attack" away from unilateral action against Pakistan -- diplomatically or perhaps even militarily, one senior official said.

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My Comment: After 10 years of continuous war the US has not experienced a mass casualty event .... i.e. more than 50 killed in one attack. I call this incredible luck .... but realistically .... one cannot expect this luck to continue.

Update: Pakistan to launch another Potemkin offensive in North Waziristan -- Long War Journal