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So what. These people hate us anyway and yet accept our money. Screw them.
I guess they never hold the old saying, “If you don’t want to wke up with fleas don’t sleep by the dog.”
I’m having trouble mustering sympathy..
I’m having trouble mustering sympathy..
The US should take money given to the Pakis and give it instead to India.. Double down on the Pakis..
Bin LAden THAT..
> ...growing anti-American sentiment in the country...
That’s a veiled threat from the Pakistani ambassador; the terrorist state of Pakistan and its enforcement spy agency — ISI — will launch attacks against the US if drone activity, if any, is not stopped.
This article is isolationist Bullshit. These drone strikes have been decimating the Pakistani Taliban and affinity groups, as well as knocking off foreign jihadists who work with them or the Afghanistan Taliban.
The Pakistan Taliban kills far more people, including many documents/filmed executions of Pakistan’s semi-military (is. paramility) border or regional police.
Let the drones keep on doing their job, i.e., decimating our enemies, driving a 24/7 few of instant death into their psyche, and teaching their supporters that we can get them too.
We should instead simply hand that money over to India in the form of old aircraft and ‘dumb’ weapons, and ask our international friend to help us in the war against terrorism.
And since the hands of Air Force personnel and CIA handlers are on the controls of these drones, we should immediately turn them over into the hands of the tens of thousands who have fled the religious and gender persecution in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and have them keep an eye out for evil dooers. Include a hotline to India who can get first hand reports of those who are abusing the civilian population so they can immediately be targeted by area of effect weaponry.
Not only will we finally be on the right side of this conflict, and also supporting a very key ally in the region, but we can actually strike a real blow against those who have taken gay bashing and brutalizing woman far beyond an art form and into public performances.
Oh, and hey, while we're getting the hell out of dodge, let's hand over those sniper rifles to the dancing boys of Afghanistan after some instruction, so that they might entertain those who used to fondle and abuse them with their new found sharpshooting skills.
I guess this is why they want to bring them home to spy in American streets.
I expect my brothers and sister of IQ+ to fight on behalf of Liberty. We all know tyranny sucks ass — do the right thing!
We should agree to stop using drones and Hellfire missiles when Pakistan agrees to kick out the Taliban.
I would not take this Pak official’s statements seriously. He wants the drones strikes stopped or diminished, which is doubtless just what the terrorists want.
Without the drone strikes, he would be no more likely to be successfully active in fighting the terrorists, because the Pakistani military is not fully committed to oppose the terrorists.
The CIA carried out an unprecedented 132 drone attacks in tribal areas, claiming the lives of 938 people, it said. The Conflict Monitoring Center points out that none of the media organizations throughout last year reported on body counts from independent sources. Many analysts believe the geo-strategic game plan of the US has turned out to be counterproductive. The year 2010 was one of the deadliest years for civilians living in the tribal regions, as the number of drone strikes exceeded the combined number of such attacks carried out from 2004 to 2009. The report states that 2,052 people lost their lives in drone strikes during the 5-year period between 2004 and 2009. The rising civilian causalities have left behind many tragic stories in the tribal areas.
So we're just supposed to assume that these "people" were civilians? The imprecision of the language used here is interesting.
Wiziristan is theoretically Pakistan.In practice, in reality, it is a tribal land not really beholden to the Paki central government. It allows the enemies in Afghanistan sanctuary and is neither Afghani nor Paki. The area is therefore a justified target.
Public opinion in the area does not favor the American drones. One wonders why it matters. Like Hamas in Gaza, the public is the enemy even though they are counted as Pakis. They are not. They do not fit into the neat little border boxes drawn on a map.
The drones who run the Paki governmnet whine about American userpation knowing full well their claims to the area are toothless. They lack the power to enforce their will
This is how soetoro wages war.
PAkistani ambassador Sherry Rehman? That doesn’t sound right.