Hi Walter,
Yes you're probably right, it would probably only take three sorties with one FA18 to take out all the infrastructure in the whole country.

>Hi Neil,
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>>Just because they have the bomb, doesn't mean the majority of the population has living conditions the same as ours.
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>You'll find different conditions all over the globe. But classifying the situation in pakistan as being in the stone age is a bit blunt IMO. The do have electricity (except for now as I heard they had a major power failure) telephone, television, etc. They have airports, busses, schools, universities etc, so it hardly classifies as stone age.
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>We are easily drawing conclusions upon countries, looking with a western view.
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>Walter,
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>>>>How can you bomb something back to the stone age, when it is already there, especially the northern areas.
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>>>I did not know they had nucluear power in the stone age ... :)
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>>>>>It had always perplexed me that Pakistan wasn't on the Axis of Evil list. Now we know why.
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>>>>>US 'threatened to bomb' Pakistan
>>>>>"The US threatened to bomb Pakistan 'back to the stone age' unless it joined the fight against al-Qaeda, President Pervez Musharraf has said."
>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stm