http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspxBy Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer Sipping hot spicy tea and enjoying local delicacies on the roof of the Lwara Fort, a red brick outpost of the Pakistani army, 6,000 feet up in the snow covered mountains of North Waziristan and about a half mile fromen-USCommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60717Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:00:58 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60717Sean, Torrington CTSounds like the 'War on Terror' will proceed as the 'War on Drugs' has: with increased police powers, reduced citizen rights, and very little effect on the supply. When will we recgonize that our tactics and strategies are pathetic failures and try something new? Aggressive penalties for drug use and sales is not reducing use. Attacking nations where we THINK terrorists are hiding is not helping either.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60742Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:24:38 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60742James Stepp, Orlando, FloridaReally simple. Loose a couple dozen armed Predator drones to the region to patrol the border, sort of an airborn minefield. Designate safe crossing points where people can move legally from one country to another and where we can find and check on them easily. Order the drones to attack anyone else crossing the border at any other point. Warn all the people in the area what is being done so they are under no illusions about what will happen. I.D. any bodies to find out exactly where they are coming from so we have a target. This is not rocket science here. A couple dozen drones would find and destroy probably 30% of border crossings. No military can take regular losses like that and expect to function for long. If these fighters are crossing the border this will definitely deny them the freedom of movement necessary for any guerilla force to fight a more powerful military.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60815Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:31:43 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60815kris dover new hampshirei have never seen so much dang bickering of thease guys need to do this and these guys need to do that. i cant get over the fact that that all that goes on theree is fighting lets kill the other guy because he doesent believe in what i believe in. thats what is great about the usa it doesent bother what you believe in it is your choice and that is what you like. if what you believe in casuses me harm that is where we have a problem. stop acting like children and fix the problem. your grown adults that need to run a country.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60953Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:30:56 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60953T. HillIt must be sad days when the MSM's friends, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, get's their butts kicked everytime they try to come off the mountains.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60976Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:36:43 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60976 ....Almost all of North Pakistan is against Musharraf for allying himself with the US. So if Musharraf wants to shut down militancy the locals would endorse it. The army has no control over that area. They are independant tribes from time immemorial in that region. It is just geography that puts them in pakistan. These tribes run their fiefdom as a separate country. So even if the Pakistani govt.s intentions are true they cant do anything about it.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#60982Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:39:06 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:60982Brian Cloughley, Burgundy, FranceAn excellent, balanced and informative piece. Pontificating foreign politicians would be well advised to read and digest. http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#61026Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:54:24 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:61026Lorriea Mecham, Mountain Home, IdahoAm I wrong to think that the growth of terrorism has been stimulated and increased by the war in Iraq? If USA leaders had been doing just the opposite, like patting everyone on the back and telling them that God loved them, would that not have decreased the terrorism? It seems like there had to have been a better way, but of course I do not know what it would be.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#61108Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:33:57 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:61108Manchester UKNo matter what President of Pakistan may do to prevent Talibans from crossing into Waziristan from Afghanistan , international media would continue to say what pleases them . http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#61113Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:35:57 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:61113lloyd roberts, jamiaca new yorkGod bless you Sean, you're so very right. Couldn't have said it better. Do you think you could run for president in 2008, then we would truly have someone with American values rather than left or right or republican and democrat or BS vs. BS. What do we know Sean, we're just average Joe's. Yeah right. We have a better handle on this country than anyone in washington could ever hope for. Sean, you the man.http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#61148Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:46:16 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:61148Hush, Pleasanton, CAPakistan is obviously supporting the Taliban. Without state sponsoship they wouldn't be so strong right nowhttp://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/20/60608.aspx#76327Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:05:25 GMT8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:76327Fernando Azcue, Miami, FlThis article its simple a comunist propaganda. I was born in Cuba and I lived there for 33 years. In all that time I did not have the oportunity to choose what to eat, what to dress, where to go and the most important what to say or to think. In that type of society your mind is not designed to think, just to follow your owner, in other words, your are like a dog. I invite those people who support dictatorial societies to make a living in Cuba or North Korea.