US military/covert policy on Pakistan getting controversial
Here's an earlier post on developing US policy for dealing militarily and covertly with the areas in Pakistan that are providing sanctuary for Taliban insurgents (and their al Qaeda and other associates) and which are increasingly seen as a threat to the Government of Pakistan itself. Now that plans have been made public in the American media, the Paks are reacting; these sorts of media revelations, before decisions have been made, often make it even harder to deal effectively with difficult issues:
1) U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan
2) US military not welcome in Pakistan: army
1) U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan
2) US military not welcome in Pakistan: army
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:43 p.m.
6 Comments:
The several Hellfire missile attacks that have already taken place in Pakistani border villages, probably fired from drones operated from Afghanistan, indicate that this is a policy that was implemented a long time ago, with or without Pakistan's permission.
The question the US should ponder is if the tactical benefits of such actions worth the fallout? This is something the Pakistani people will not like, will not accept and that will only drive many moderate Pakistanis over to the extremists. The US should stop bombing the whole world.
How would Canadians like US drones sending Hellfire missiles into Canada to take out terrorists in Canada?
Oh! We're a Western Country, and we're mostly whites and Christians, unlike Pakistanis who are South Asians, brown people and Muslims, so it's not the same thing. It's Ok to violate their borders and their territorial integrity with air strikes.
Damn Western Press! Those Hellfire missiles would have been so "effective"
a taxpaper: The Serbs are white and Christian, the Kosovars white and Muslim--you have a point?
Mark
Ottawa
"The US should stop bombing the whole world." and "Oh! We're a Western Country, and we're mostly whites and Christians,..."
Let's see, are their any left wing cliches that "a taxpayer" missed? He's touched on Evil-America, as well as Arrogant-White-Christian-Westerners/Victim Non-White-Non-Christians.
Oh, yeah: He forgot "Quagmire" and "Afghanistan-is-not-winnable-by-war"
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And it's nice to see the New York Times is still in business, still giving aid and comfort to the enemy, reporting in detail on top secret White House meetings, intelligence, military planning and top-level policy being considered.
Fellas, don't forget to fax a copy of that edition to Osama, hiding out in his mountain cave in Af-stan. Al Qaeda doesn't need an Intel Service, they have the New York Times.
When the media reports on secret meetings dave hates them, when they don't report on secret meetings dave hates them.
And as much as it's fun to dismiss what a taxpayer has to say based on his/her hyperbole the point that the US is violating the territorial integrity of Pakistan appears to be a fact.
Not a FACT™ but an actual fact.
Cameron, I saw close up pictures of the data plate and serial number of a Hellfire missile recovered from the ruins of a bombed house in Pakistan. Its better proof than I have seen about Iranian made IEDs in Afghanistan.
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