Just out of curiosity...

Are we talking about American troops, or are we volunteering to send the Canadians? ... and if American troops, where do we find 'em to send???

US willing to send troops to Pakistan
By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
24 Jan 2008
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is willing to send a small number of U.S. combat troops to Pakistan to help fight the insurgency there if Pakistani authorities ask for such help, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.

Oh, okay! It's only a "small number of U.S. combat troops"... That makes all the difference!

Can I have some of whatever Gates is smoking?

We're over-committed: troops in Iraq (not enough to really do any good, "just enough to lose" - I believe that was Tom Friedman's characterization of the Rumsfeld Doctrine); troops in Afghanistan (again, not enough to control the population, just enough to fight an ineffectual war against third-world guerillas).

On the bright side, if we sent troops to Pakistan, that would help make a more compelling argument for sending troops into Iran - you know, just to fill in the space - a nice, low-density troop presence from the Iraq-Jordan border on the west to the Pakistan-India border on the east! Not enough troops anywhere to control even one major city - just enough to get the boys killed in low-level combat against third-world insurgents.

Stop the madness!