To "Gomez"; Your security with USA is the credit crunch & to get invaded. Iraq and Afghanistan were once US allies and are your good eg now. They sell you the 3rd/4th rated weapons for your hard earned cash. You are only part of USA's "free" world for as long as you bark like a dog behind his master

William Gint, Glasgow, UK

Love Pakistan or hate it,pushing it into a corner will only result in problems for the world. All the coalitions in the world have not been able to subdue Afghanistan then who is delusional enough to think a nuclear armed country of 170 million will be overcome by force.. work with them.

John Kerry, London, UK

Attack Pakistan and they can close off the supply routes it provides to thousands of trucks a day ferrying supplies to Afghanistan. In order to re-establish that you'll need to invade Pakistan, a country three times the size of Iraq. Tread carefully Pakistan can leave NATO at the Taliban's mercy.

Shakeel, Derby, UK

The Pakistan army is has the real power in Pakistan. Their agenda is not what they pretend to.

val, stockholm,

Pakistani leaders including Zardari, army, ISI and others are not telling the truth.

When Islamic extremists and terrorists exported all over world have a Pakistani footprint, what is problem in attacking Pakistan by affected nations? Does only Pakistan in world has sovereignty and not others?

R K Mani , Mumbai, India

There's an old saying "You can't have everything" and I believe this is true of the al-Qaida militants inside Pakistan. I think the US is getting greedy. Crush a wasp nest and they'll only move elsewhere. Leave them be, keep them contained and monitored. Osama is a key player best kept alive.

John, Oxfordshire, UK

America need to tread very carefully here. Angering Pakistan, an ally, is not a sensible move and instead should work with them to negociate a joint force to take on the Taliban.

Chris, Manchester, UK

interestingly pakistan has the means to attack the incursion of allied troops and makes statements that it will secure its sovereignty, but SOMEHOW IT CANNOT CONTROL THE TERRORIST WITHIN ITS OWN BOARDERS-maybe we should now consider that state as part of the problem and deal with it accordingly

Nick, Paris, france

If the nation of Pakistan is serious about ridding itself from terriosm then it will need to tollerate the presence of the U.S and NATO forces in it's border region: a region used by Al-Queda. In order to prevent attacks like the most recent Marriots hotel bombing, cooperation is needed.

Edward, London, England

*JAY* for your information...Taliban were created by the USA ...read up on it...they were created in order to get rid of Russia
from Afghanistan..

I am so sick and tired of the USA attacking anywhere and everywhere...I'm sure they just drop a few missiles just to show they can...

Stephanie, Bedfordshire, UK

Pls stop invading innocent countries, Bush!

Wang, Hanzhou, China

Theres a good reason why the US is going down, and why they are alienating the rest of the world. The whole economy of US is built on bullying, from the time, europeans went there and settled. But the question is how many wars can they have when their economy is in dire straits..

Ryan, Reading , UK

It was America who created taliban by at first supporting osama with military to defeat Iraq, but secretly he switched his actions into killing the Americans for some unknown reason.

But fact is Americas responsible.

Jimmy, Bradford, United kingdom

The security of the United States and that of the free world is more important than the soverignty of Pakistan. As for the bluster of Mr. Zardari of not allowing his country to be used for cross-border terrorism, all his neighbours only know too well how Pakistan is capital of world terrorism.

Gomez D'Souza, Hyderabad, India

Jay from Toronto,
Actually the US created the Taliban and now the monster is out of control.

Anjam, Reading, UK

Taliban, they were created by U.S after Russian invasion of Afghanistan initially called Mujaheedin. Now they are being funded by Indian and Afghani intelligence working together to keep US in Afghanistan to protect Karzai, his drug Baron brother & damage Pakistan. Indian dream will not come true

Kim, Karachi, Pakistan

US tells its story after denying Pak press statements. guess it needed time to think up of something. Ritu from India, if India does react, he know the response will be nuclear. to Jay, it was the US and Pak who created the Taliban oil needs to flow from Central asia thru Afg to Gwadar.

Shaffiq Mahmood, Halifax, UK

Any self respecting nation should do every thing possible to defend its border and sovereignty even it meant losing millions in aid money. It is a strange that USA the great champion of free world and democracy is the one which has invaded and occupied other countries and bombed its people.

I Khan, Wakefield, UK

The cozying up of Pak in the US blanket has led to this type of incursions. The US will now not stop twice to shoot to kill Pak soldiers if they come in way of the US led hunt for Osama and his coterie....The honeymoon of six decades seems to be spoiling into a rancid divorce!

Robin, Lucknow, India

Can we allow our government to invade another country after their people have told us to stay out? What kind of actions would be taken if North Korea decided to send commandos into America? I believe that the government of this country needs to take a step back from squashing sovereignty.

Colikar, Bloomington,

Every country has right of selfdefense either its USA or Pakistan

Zahid, Lahore, Pakistan

Pakistan created the Taliban, and must be held accountable for it. Their protestations of innocence in their links to extremism must not be given credence. They should not be allowed to hunt with the hounds and run with the hares. The US has wrongly given Pakistan a label of "ally".

Jay, Toronto, Canada

sorry to say but the ran to the only place they could .

jeff horton, indinapolis, usa

The ultimate looser in this whole episode is none other but Pakistan. At this juncture India might have taken control of Pak-occupied-Kashmir. India's this action mayn't be equated with aggrerssion but India's assertion to its sovereignity.

Rituparna Kalita, Guwahati, India