>>>>>"going in" "taking them out" "surgical strike" nice language that rarely is matched by reality. And the "if they don't like it, tough" should actually read "and if they don't like it we've stored up a whole load of problems for ourselves for the next 20 years"
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>>>>Not to mention that our military is already there and has been for years. Just one small example:
>>>>http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-military-die-pakistan-bombing/story?id=9734681
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>>>"More than 20 special operations forces are in Pakistan to train the Frontier Corps" - how many soldiers is "20 forces"? The military something surely has weird units of measure. Up to now, it was 1 troop (also an unknown number of people per one), now it's 1 force.
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>>Did you know there are 2 scoops of raisins in a package of Kellogg's Raisin Bran?
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>My pursuit of knowledge never got that far.
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>I fail to grasp the wisdom... can you enlighten me?

It's like you asking, "How many soldiers is 20 'forces'"? Just how many raisins are in "2 scoops"?

Both are examples of the deliberate dissemination and marketing of imprecision.