as seen on tv
Senator
No, this is NOT about Michelle Obama being heckled endlessly by a lesbian protestor with too much testosterone. You can read about that in Drudge, if you want. (Good for you Michelle – in fact you should have probably jumped down there and bitch slapped her. Remember the time Reagan roared “I’m paying for this microphone”?)
Rather, it was Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who made this threat. “Stop killing the terrorists we are hosting with your drones.”
Um . . . or what? You will refuse the billions in foreign aid you’ve been getting from the USA? Okay - bring it on, Mr. Knowaz-it-all.
If there ever was an opportunity for an exit strategy from our entanglement with Pakistan, this could be it. They don’t like our war on terror. We don’t like their support of terror. Common ground. We agree to send you no more money. And no more warnings of “incoming” when we have a hard target bracketed on the drone video system. Every time we tell you about it an imminent “action”, the terrorist cuts short his birthday party and gets into a land rover before the drones arrive. That’s how we managed to finally nail Bin Laden – we didn’t tell you in advance about our trained seal act. And see? We didn’t harm a hair on the heads of any of the “retired” Pakistani generals living in the same neighborhood. Yes, we’re that good.
At this point someone in the audience – not Obama, though – will point out that drone strikes on other’s sovereign soil are “illegal”. Yep. They sure are. And they’ve been happening not only under Obama, but also under Dubya – who might have launched even MORE drones and cruise missiles than Obama. And you can trace the thread back at least to President Clinton, who missed with a cruise missile strike against Bin Laden’s tent, before 9/11. But Bubba nailed it with that attack on the so called “aspirin factory” that was actually producing deadly VX gas.
I’m pretty much okay with drone and cruise attacks on chemical weapons plants, terrorist hideouts etc. Obama gave a great head-fake last month when he suggested drone strikes were coming to an end, then immediately launched one that took out the 2nd in command of the Taliban. That’s probably something that’s not going to fool them again though. But here’s an idea – announce ANOTHER end to drone strikes, then watch and see who runs for his land rover right away. That could be interesting.
Mr. Sharif . . . sorry if the radical Islamists in Pakistan are pressuring you to end drone strikes. None of this would be happening if Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies weren’t blatantly aiding and abetting international terror, though. After more than a decade of US anti-terror aid, with no visible benefit to us, we no longer believe Pakistan’s claim of good intentions. My advice to you - to ask your head of security for a current map of all known terrorists being sheltered in Pakistan, and make sure your aides keep you at least half a kilometer away from those locations whenever you’re in a motorcade, campaigning, or visiting a mistress.
It’s what I would do, if I was in your position.
Full disclosure – if a factory actually DOES make aspirin, but is surrounded by high tech security, has armed guards bringing truckload deliveries to military installations, and traces of VX gas are found in the surrounding soil, does it still count as an aspirin factory? And I’m not sure if the US is telling the truth when we claim we have no more biological or chemical stockpiles. We could invite an impartial UN inspections team in, to determine the truth, if we wanted to take the high ground, and set a good example. There’s no shame in unilaterally disarming ourselves from weapons that we couldn’t possibly use.
Rather, it was Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who made this threat. “Stop killing the terrorists we are hosting with your drones.”
Um . . . or what? You will refuse the billions in foreign aid you’ve been getting from the USA? Okay - bring it on, Mr. Knowaz-it-all.
If there ever was an opportunity for an exit strategy from our entanglement with Pakistan, this could be it. They don’t like our war on terror. We don’t like their support of terror. Common ground. We agree to send you no more money. And no more warnings of “incoming” when we have a hard target bracketed on the drone video system. Every time we tell you about it an imminent “action”, the terrorist cuts short his birthday party and gets into a land rover before the drones arrive. That’s how we managed to finally nail Bin Laden – we didn’t tell you in advance about our trained seal act. And see? We didn’t harm a hair on the heads of any of the “retired” Pakistani generals living in the same neighborhood. Yes, we’re that good.
At this point someone in the audience – not Obama, though – will point out that drone strikes on other’s sovereign soil are “illegal”. Yep. They sure are. And they’ve been happening not only under Obama, but also under Dubya – who might have launched even MORE drones and cruise missiles than Obama. And you can trace the thread back at least to President Clinton, who missed with a cruise missile strike against Bin Laden’s tent, before 9/11. But Bubba nailed it with that attack on the so called “aspirin factory” that was actually producing deadly VX gas.
I’m pretty much okay with drone and cruise attacks on chemical weapons plants, terrorist hideouts etc. Obama gave a great head-fake last month when he suggested drone strikes were coming to an end, then immediately launched one that took out the 2nd in command of the Taliban. That’s probably something that’s not going to fool them again though. But here’s an idea – announce ANOTHER end to drone strikes, then watch and see who runs for his land rover right away. That could be interesting.
Mr. Sharif . . . sorry if the radical Islamists in Pakistan are pressuring you to end drone strikes. None of this would be happening if Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies weren’t blatantly aiding and abetting international terror, though. After more than a decade of US anti-terror aid, with no visible benefit to us, we no longer believe Pakistan’s claim of good intentions. My advice to you - to ask your head of security for a current map of all known terrorists being sheltered in Pakistan, and make sure your aides keep you at least half a kilometer away from those locations whenever you’re in a motorcade, campaigning, or visiting a mistress.
It’s what I would do, if I was in your position.
Full disclosure – if a factory actually DOES make aspirin, but is surrounded by high tech security, has armed guards bringing truckload deliveries to military installations, and traces of VX gas are found in the surrounding soil, does it still count as an aspirin factory? And I’m not sure if the US is telling the truth when we claim we have no more biological or chemical stockpiles. We could invite an impartial UN inspections team in, to determine the truth, if we wanted to take the high ground, and set a good example. There’s no shame in unilaterally disarming ourselves from weapons that we couldn’t possibly use.
