A key Democratic senator said here on Sunday that Pakistan should either go for Al Qaeda itself or let the US do what was necessary. At a session of the Senate intelligence committee, Diane Feinstein – the second most senior member of the committee from the Democratic side – was critical of “half measures” by President Pervez Musharraf at what she said was a critical moment for the US and its allies.
| Who thinks her 'support' would outlast the first bombing raid on Quetta ordered by President Bush? |
She called for “pinpoint” attacks against Al Qaeda before the anticipated spring offensive by the Taliban and Al Qaeda elements.
| Ah yes, the Dhimmicrats favorite kind of war -- 'pinpoint' and 'precision' strikes against an enemy. This assumes, Di, that we know exactly where the enemy is at that moment, and that we can hit them with 'precision'. JDAMs are good but they aren't good enough when the information is wrong. And the first time we hit a nursery, hospital, school or mosque in Quetta, because the intel said (right or wrong) that the bad guys were using said building for their own purposes, will be the time that the Senator withdraws her support and blames the military for 'incompetence'. |
Feinstein, also a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, “The Pakistanis either have to let us go in or go in themselves when they have intelligence. There’s no question that there’s going to be a spring offensive in Afghanistan, that they’re trying to reach out, that training is going on, recruitment is going on.”
| Too bad the senator doesn't remember what happened tothe last Taliban spring offensive. |
Another senator, Republican Peter Hoekstra, said the region around Pakistan was a growing threat, but stressed that a “balancing act” was needed to make sure that Musharraf’s government remained in power. He said, “We need stability in the regime. We need this regime to survive. The Pakistanis have been doing a number of things to help us go after Al Qaeda.” |