Reply #21: If this is a compound that houses militants who train their people to attack our soldiers [View All]

[DevonRex]

and innocent Afghani people, then I'm all for it. There are a couple of things we all need to remember about these kinds of events.

1. Pakistan has to say they don't like it because they have a sizeable extremist population.

2. Pakistan may indeed have cooperated in searching out the compound and verifying the location and its mission and the people involved.

The BIG hint regarding this is that we already have the information about foreign nationals and suspected militants being killed. If Pakistan had not been in on it, that information would not have been given out. In this way, they hope to satisfy all their objectives. They get rid of militants and foreign nationals without bearing the brunt of the anger of their own extremist people. They cement an alliance with the US and our new President in a subtle way that they hope Westerners pick up on.