 | Trailing wife and I posted at about the same time, so I've combined her comments into this post. AoS. |
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would possibly send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists, an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.
| Like she wuz jes' sayin' ... |
The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid.
Does Candidate Obama realize this is an overt act of war according to international law and custom?
"Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
| Sure you will, uh-huh, and your fellow travellers in the progressive movement will let you 'invade the sovereignty' of Pakistan. Check with the Kos Kiddies in advance? |
The excerpts were provided by the Obama campaign in advance of the speech.
ABC News offers an interesting, adjective filled analysis.
Obama said that as commander in chief he would remove troops from Iraq and putting them "on the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan." He said he would send at least two more brigades to Afghanistan and increase nonmilitary aid to the country by $1 billion.
| We don't need two more brigades in Afghanistan. We have the Talibunnies sufficiently on the run to let the Afghans figure out how to run their country. They're not doing a great job, but there's no evidence that another billion in aid would change that. Karzai and his fellow warlords have to settle down and make the country work, doing all the mundane things that are generally not in the job description of a warlord -- schools, roads, sewers and blue-light districts as examples. This is just posturing from someone who has no real clue whatsoever about how our military works, how to use military force, and how to think strategically. And it shows. |
He also said he would create a three-year, $5 billion program to share intelligence with allies worldwide to take out terrorist networks from Indonesia to Africa.
| More posturing. This is what you do as a clueless Dhimmi -- throw money around and hope to impress the rubes at the Daily Kos that you're somehow serious. The Dhimmis do the same thing in domestic programs: if you spend one billion dollars you're serious, if you spend five billion you're really serious. |
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