Stephen:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Publius Maximus
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/226522
>
>> One person standing in the way of expanded missile strikes: President
>> Obama. Five administration officials tell NEWSWEEK that the president
>> has sided with political and diplomatic advisers who argue that
>> widening the scope of the drone attacks would be risky and unwise.
>> - - -
>
> I liked your Fox News Edit style in the above paragraph. Good job
> changing the truth to fit your point.
I changed nothing. What are you talking about?
>
> Obama is concerned that firing missiles into urban areas like Quetta,
> where intelligence reports suggest that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed
> Omar and other high-level militants have sometimes taken shelter,
> would greatly increase the risk of civilian casualties.
Yeah, and we all know winning a war against terrorist masterminds just
isn't worth it, no matter how careful and precise the targeting of
those individuals.
Hey, why don't we offer them a place at the political table instead?
Obviously, that will make them all friendly and disposed not to plot
anymore attacks, for sure.
> It would also
> draw protests from Pakistani politicians and military leaders, who
> have been largely quiet about the drone attacks as long as they've
> been confined to the country's out-of-sight border region.
Don't want to upset any radicals in high places, now do we?
(And I'm not just talking about Obama there...)
>The White
> House has been encouraged by Pakistan's own recent military efforts to
> root out militants along the Afghan border, and it does not want to
> jeopardize that cooperation.
Yawn. They've also been encouraged by the great wonders of the
stimulus package, and masters of the art of making huge losses look
like great victories ("jobs saved or created" is positive no matter
how many millions of jobs the economy sheds...). Easily excited, that
lot.
>
> I take that next section to mean that he is attempting to work with
> other governmental leaders and allow them to have local gains in this
> as well.
I take it to mean he's not willing to make sure the job gets done
right, and is quite happy if the Taliban survives as a political force
in the region.
>
> When you get into taking out houses you are only as good as your intel
> is. I have a freind over there now who deals with that exactly and
> their tools or is it toys are very sophisticated. Unfortunately when
> bad guy goes into the local school or hospital and gets into a
> different vehicle when he leaves it gets us confused. Or I could be
> spreading false information that they could be reading? ;->
Well the doves didn't like the more traditional approach of carpet
bombing till either nothing moves or what's left surrenders, so here
we are, left to send building inspectors in and announce our
intentions before "surprise" finger-prick attacks.
- Publius
>
>
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