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One of the more interesting details within the advance

studies associated with Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars"his that Washingtonhhad ready the
"retribution plan" within the event of the major attack on the united States which can easily be
traced back for you to Pakistan.
"While absolutely no contingency plans exist for dealing militarily using a collapse of nuclear-armed
Pakistan, there's 'a retribution plan' within place, developed from the Bush administration, in the
wedding the united States suffers an additional 9/11-style terrorist attack," according to the Los
Angeles Times.h"That would involve bombing as well as missile strikes to become able to obliterate
your greater than 150 al Qaeda training and staging camps proven to exist, many of them
throughout Pakistan, which usually presumably would suffer extensive civilian casualties."
"Some locations might be outdated, however there would be absolutely no concern, under the actual
plan, for which could be living there now. The Particular retribution plan referred to end up being
able to as for a brutal punishing attack on no much less than 150 or perhaps a lot more related
camps," your times associated with India quoted Woodward as saying.

The concept that the actual Americans would takehdrastichpunitive action ifha major attack
werehtraced back again to end up being able to Pakistan continues to become able to be about for a
while, and it is one that worries many Pakistanis. Nevertheless I've not really seen it spelled
outhquite consequently clearly before inside black-and-white.

Some crucial questionshthen.

1) Really Does which strategy nonetheless standh
2) Really Does it utilize and then al Qaeda, or even features it been up-to-date tohtake account
regarding threats using their particular company Pakistan-based groupshh
Take, with regard to example, the actual failed car-bombing of New York's times Square in may by
simply Pakistani American Faisal Shahzad, that mentioned he was working with thehTehrik--Taliban Pakistan, as well as Pakistani Taliban.h Whilst mainly located in Pakistan's tribal locations
bordering Afghanistan, the actual Pakistani Taliban also have a strong presence in the capital
associated with scotland- Karachi, therefore in the event you want to adopt punitive motion against
them, where do you draw the lineh
What in addition associated with other militant groupshsuch ashthe al Qaeda-linkedhJaishe-Mohammedh, situated in Pakistan's heartland Punjab province and also with alleged connections
to the 2006 "liquid bombing" plot to lower your multiple airliners over the Atlantich or with the
Punjab-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which in turn within the 2008 attack on Mumbai pertaining to that it
was blamed, showed it had organisational skills comparable in order to al Qaeda to mount a
spectacular assault, as well as which usually has additionally been associated with overseas plotsh
The indisputable fact that al Qaeda has been somehow the unitary organisation representing a
distinctive threat for the United States Regarding America comes to look very dated since 9/11.h
does which mean your "retribution plan" has also been overtaken simply by eventsh
3) to what extent could Pakistan stop Pakistan-based militants coming from plotting attacks onhthe
United States, in the event it can't even prevent bombings associated with its citieshhDoes theh

"retribution plan" attribute duty to be able to Pakistani authorities with regard to failing - according
towards the united States - to be able to "do more" in order to tackle militantsh
4) How way could Pakistan withstand U.S. punitive action even when this had been limited to its
tribal areash The Actual nation has previously been looking quite shaky after devastatinghfloods as
well as the economy is in the shambles. Ahshift to always be able to civilian democracyhthat had
been supposed in order to deliver stability has been sorely undermined through weak governance,
which in turn offers seen the balance involving energy shifting increasingly again towards your
PakistanhArmy.hTaliban militants happen to be able to be wanting to exploit political instabilityhby
stoking sectarian tensions, bombinghShi'ite rallies in the cities regarding Lahore andhQuettahthis
month.h As Well As anti-Americanism has already been runningh high, exacerbated by simply public
hostility in order to U.S. drone bombings inside the tribal areas.h the danger wouldhbe in which
intensified U.S. bombings could increasehinstability inside Pakistanhto such an extent that
Washington would wind up by having an evenhbigger security threat - any nuclear-armed nation
slipping out of control.
Of course every person remembers former president Pervez Musharraf's comment in which
Washington had threatened to bomb Pakistan back into the stone get older if he did not cooperate
following 9/11. However I've by no means been entirely clear what which meant.h Bombing a new
nuclear-armed nation into a state regarding chaos, or indeed attempting in order to invade it, tend
to be unlikely policy options for Washington as ithtrieshto extract itself from 2 unpopular wars whilst
furthermore fretting concerning neighbouring Iran's very own nuclear ambitions.h But bombing
suspected al Qaeda camps within the tribal areas could merely improve instability without having
eradicating militancy.
So exactly where really does in which depart your United States Involving America along with its
"retribution plan"hhWhere would become the red lines that might demandhan immediate and also
effective U.S. reactionhhWould ithdepend on the sized the actual attack,hthe intensity regarding
public reaction, or electoral imperatives at the timehh Can anybody knowh Really Does Pakistanh
In strategic thinking about the relationship among India along with Pakistan, certainly 1 of the
biggest worries has usually been that each countries do not really realize in which in turn the other's
red lines lie if this arrives tohthehuse regarding nuclear weapons.h Also more worrying, that they
believe these people do. Thaththinking probably applies also to the United States Associated With
America and Pakistan -hthat they don'thknow exactly where each and also every other's red lines lie
- in both terms of Washington's power to absorb yet another attack, or possibly in Pakistan's ability
to withstandhthe U.S. reaction.h A Person would have in order to hope they know they don't really
know, as well as that the "retribution plan", when it nonetheless exists, by zero means features to
become put straight into practice.
(Reuters photo: Protesters burn up U.S. flag in Peshawar)h