Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday complained of "alienation" resulting from United States drone strikes on Pakistan, a day after a suspected US strike in Kurram Agency killed 24 people. "There is collateral damage that accompanies these attacks, and it leads to alienation," he said after meeting European Union officials in Prague.Leads to dead guys, too...
"If we want a success in this fight against extremism and terrorism, we have to carry the people along," Qureshi added.
We also have to kill the bad guyz. Lots of them.
Warning: Qureshi praised unmanned drones whose missiles destroyed a Taliban training camp in Kurram on Thursday as "superior technology" that can "take out high-value targets," but he also warned the US to weigh the pros and cons of its tactics. "The US government should weigh the advantages with the disadvantages. If these disadvantages outweigh the advantages, we feel there is a case to review the strategy," Qureshi said.
I think we've reached the point where we don't really care about the fluffy bunnies and the cute little kittens, as long as there are Chechens and Uzbeks and Arabs to accompany them into the Great Beyond.
The US military as a rule does not confirm drone attacks but the armed forces and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operating in Afghanistan are the only forces that deploy drones in the region.
But it coulda been Guatamalans...
Or the Ruritanians. Did the drones have a lilac ostrich feather emblem?
More than 30 such strikes have killed over 330 people since August 2008, shortly before key Washington ally President Asif Ali Zardari was elected.
The carnage among the fluffy bunnies was horrible...
Thursday's attack was the fifth missile strike blamed on unmanned US aircraft since US President Barack Obama came to power, dashing Pakistani hopes that the new administration would abandon the policy. Qureshi said in Prague that Pakistan would discuss this issue with the new US administration "perhaps next month," without elaborating.