Obama vows no hot US troop pursuit into Pakistan »
Posted By STONERS 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
President Barack Obama ruled out sending US troops on a hot pursuit of extremists across the Afghan border into Pakistan -- but demanded Islamabad hold up its end of the anti-terror struggle.
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STONERS8 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Referring to US missile strikes on militants, Obama said in a television interview broadcast Sunday: "If we have a high-value target within our sights, after consulting with Pakistan, we're going after them."
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"But asked on CBS program "Face the Nation" if he would order US troops on the ground into militant safe havens inside Pakistan, Obama stressed: "No." -
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Spadecaller8 months, 3 weeks ago
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We all make vows. Some break them more than others. Just look at the divorce rates before stereotyping all politicians. There are enough people who are dishonest from all professions. Does not Selective understanding warrants individual scrutiny? If all politicians are alike then we need not evaluate Obama's decisions or any other politician's.
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wtagg8 months, 3 weeks ago
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To reach their goal of being elected. Once elected, it is equivalent to a union or civil service job.
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I don't think you really want elected officials not to make vows or promises, you want them to keep a few. Maybe you asked the wrong question.
Why do politicians fail to meet any of their vows?
Upon reflecting on this, maybe the voters do not require it of them to keep getting elected. -
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Spadecaller8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Some people have a hard time understanding an issue if it is addressed by an intelligent person who includes stipulations and alternatives in their promises. These people prefer to think in terms of black and white; no racial inference implied, I think...
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hyperbola8 months, 3 weeks ago
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Unfortunately Obama is once again letting the disastrous bushie / zioncon decisions control his administration.
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Afghanistan: The A.I.G. of American Foreign Policy
What we're about to watch should be considered nothing less than the Great Afghan (or Af-Pak) bailout. ... What this all adds up to is an ambitious doubling down on just about every bet already made by Washington in these last years -- from the counterinsurgency war against the Taliban and the counter-terrorism war against al-Qaeda to the financial love/hate relationship with the Pakistani military and its intelligence services underway since at least the Nixon years of the early 1970s...
...As Obama's economic team overseeing the various financial bailouts is made up of figures long cozy with Wall Street, so his foreign policy team is made up of figures deeply entrenched in Washington's national security state -- former Clintonistas (including the penultimate Clinton herself), military figures like National Security Adviser General James Jones, and that refugee from the H.W. Bush era, Defense Secretary Robert Gates. They are classic custodians of empire. Like the economic team, they represent the ancien régime. ...
...Unfortunately, the end result is likely to be that, as with A.I.G., we, the American people, could end up "owning" 80% of the Af-Pak project without ever "nationalizing" it -- without ever, that is, being in actual control. In fact, if things go as badly as they could in the Af-Pak War, A.I.G. might end up looking like a good deal by comparison. ...
In the end, as with the Obama economic team, so the foreign policy team may be pushed in new directions sooner than anyone imagines and, willy-nilly, into some genuinely new thinking about a collapsing world. But not now. Not yet. Like our present financial bailouts, like that extra $30 billion that went into A.I.G. recently, the new Obama plan is superannuated on arrival. It represents graveyard thinking.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/03/30/afghanis...
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