Posted on 09/29/2010 12:10:57 PM PDT by mojito
President Obama dispatched his national security adviser, retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, and CIA Director Leon Panetta to Pakistan for a series of urgent, secret meetings on May 19, 2010.
Less than three weeks earlier, a 30-year-old U.S. citizen born in Pakistan had tried to blow up an SUV in New York City's Times Square. The crude bomb - which a Pakistan-based terrorist group had taught him to make - smoked but did not explode. Only luck had prevented a catastrophe.
"We're living on borrowed time," Jones told Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at their meeting in Islamabad. "We consider the Times Square attempt a successful plot because neither the American nor the Pakistani intelligence agencies could intercept or stop it."
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Is this an accurate reflection on how the war is being conducted, or is it a puff piece? I'd say there is a good deal of contradictory evidence that Woodward just does not account for. It sounds like playing nice was the price of access.
I’m more concerned about the cancer in the White House.
I’m more concerned about the cancer in the White House.
August 2, 2007 Timesonline.uk
Obama willing to invade Pakistan in al-Qaeda hunt
Barack Obama, a leading Democrat candidate in the US presidential race, provoked anger yesterday by threatening to send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists — even without permission from that country’s Government.
Standing in front of a Stars and Stripes flag, Mr Obama said: “There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
The speech to the Woodrow Wilson Centre was designed to shore up his credentials as a potential commander-in-chief by backing a pre-emptive military action that even President Bush has so far refused to order.
Or, as Obama says in his perfect Arabic dialect, Paak-ee-ston
THE SYSTEM WORKED, that's was Napolitano claimed wasn't it?
When he was campaigning he said he would INVADE pokystan.
Wow, all the leftist DemoRats have moved to Pakistan? Where have I been?
Did he pronounce it “Pock-Key-Stahn?”
Not the first time that Oblahblah is struggling with the fact that telling people what to do is not the same as his convincing them.
You beat me to that answer!
And like any cancer it should be treated with high doses of radiation.
If Obama invaded Pakistan, who would he go after, exactly? And why would any sane person want to invade a nuclear power?
So what happenes when we destabilize an already precarious Paki,*ahem* Phakeesthan? More blood, more war and farther away from the main financiers of terrorism Wahabi money via *all bow to the ling please* House of Fudd. Sly demons over there and too many presidents have bought into the Saudi indescretions and outright murderous regimes. Pakistan is just held up by Saudi money, kill the financiers, blow Mecca( never happen) and the hornets scatter.
You got that right. Terrorism will be stopped when the source, (Riyadh), is put out of business.
I don’t understand why we don’t do it. Cut off their money or outright slam them, take their oil, better yet, give half to Israel, and I swear people will just shut up. Oh there will be uprisings but you cut the money and freeze the assets at the source it all dries up and they go back to being pissed off indisrciminate goat fornicating nomads. The hatred vs Israel is SO strong however they WANT to keep the Muzzies in power even if it’s shooting us( the US and etc) in more than just a foot.
We don’t do it because both parties are on the take from the oil companies and the Saudis.
Zero said he wanted to invade Pakistan, if memory serves poorly. :’) Thanks mojito.
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