meanwhile in Pakistan

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We can keep bombing them without being friends with them.  They'll bitch about it (like they do now), but they can't and won't do anything to stop it.  The thing we really need them as friends for is to keep supplying our troops in Afghanistan.  We're already working on ways around that since they are royally screwing us over on that right now.

You are aware, that Pakistan is a nuclear power?

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The entire idea that the US can operate militarily on the territory of a great power like Pakistan without the explicit or tacit alliance with its government is ludicrous.

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Its important to distinguish between alliance and approval. Its clear that the US military has in a number of cases acted without approval from the Pakistani government.
But what dead0man said was that the US could operate on Pakistani territory without an alliance with Pakistan. That what I was commenting on. If the US was considered an enemy by the Pakistani government your military wouldn't be able to operate on their territory. (Which is of course the reason why the US government has no intention of breaking that alliance).