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Monday, February 16, 2009

Pakistan Violence 2-16-09

This thing is shaping up to be the same sinkhole as Iraq.

Gulf News: Suspected US missile strike kills 26 in tribal region
This was the fourth attack since US President Barack Obama took office last month, showing there was no change in policy since the last year of the Bush administration, when drone attacks against militant targets on Pakistani soil multiplied...

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Keeping Gates on was a tacit ok for this kind of thing. We'll never get our economy straight if were buried in these sand traps. Nothing we can do in these places will fix the monumental fuck ups of the last 200 yrs. in these regions.

Jim Sande said...

I would agree. The idea of a victory in Afghanistan is meaningless.

If bin Laden really is in the "western tribal region of Pakistan" then get him. With all the amazing super weaponry and observation satellites, what's the problem.

Glynn Kalara said...

Really we pay these people billions and all they seem to be able to do is kill civilians by the ship load. I don't think they could find their way to the rest room without help. What we need is a Royal Mountie here, they always find their man/women, AKA Dudley Doright.