Posted on 07/21/2008 4:32:13 PM PDT by Starman417
While the hopeful POTUS DNC candidate jets around Europe and the Middle East to meet with leaders he will be "dealing with for the next eight to 10 years," - along with an adoring media circus in tow - it's amazing how all reports of his "tour of duty" manage to ellude the gaping hole in Obama's Middle East foreign policy strategy. Were he serious about his transfer of the battle against the Global Islamic Jihad Movement to Afghanistan, his first stop should have been Pakistan.
Instead, that is the one place Obama fears to tread. He has not laid the groundwork well for US relations with the Pakistani allied government, and they have noticed. It started back in August 2007, when Obama announced his cowboy policy towards Pakistan, saying:
Back in August, I said we should work with the Pakistani government, first of all to encourage democracy in Pakistan, and secondly, that we have to press them to do more to take on al Qaeda in their territory," the Illinois Democrat, who now threatens to strike at Senator Hillary Rodham Hillary in New Hampshire after a stunning performance in Iowa, said."What I said was, if they could not or would not do so, and we had actionable intelligence, then I would strike."
Pakistan wasted no time in responding to the junior Senator's threats of invasion.
Pakistan criticized U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday for saying that, if elected, he might order unilateral military strikes against terrorists hiding in this Islamic country.Top Pakistan officials said Obama's comment was irresponsible and likely made for political gain in the race for the Democratic nomination.
"It's a very irresponsible statement, that's all I can say," Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khusheed Kasuri told AP Television News. "As the election campaign in America is heating up we would not like American candidates to fight their elections and contest elections at our expense."
Obama has not, since that time, backed down on his threats. Instead his "soaring" rhetoric continues to talk tough INRE the Pakistanis... with just a tad of "softening".
“What I have said is that if we had actionable intelligence against high-level al-Qaeda targets and the Pakistani Government was unwilling to go after those targets, then we should. Now my hope is that does not come to that, that, in fact, the Pakistani Government will recognise that we have Osama bin Laden in our sights, then we should fire, that we should capture,” he told CBS in an interview.Obama who visited neighbouring Afghanistan Sunday, however, told the channel that Washington’s strategy should be that if Pakistan does not take action in the event of having actionable intelligence against high-value terror suspects, the United States should.
It appears the candidate of "hope" now merely "hopes" that he doesn't have to order an invasion of a US ally.
Obama offered some other thinly veiled threats while next door in Afghanistan:
KABUL: United States Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Sunday he would not tolerate militant sanctuaries in Pakistan, which NATO blames for the spike in violence inside eastern Afghanistan. “I will push Pakistan very hard to make sure that we act against such training camps,” he said, adding, “I think it’s absolutely vital to the security interests of both the United States and Pakistan.”
There's at least one Pakistani official responding to Obama... and he's not mincing his words at the prospect of a cowboy president from Chicago - one who uses the US military might against allies, and not jihad movements. NWFP Governor Owais Ghani said BHO's irresponsible rhetoric is undermining the Islamabad government:
(Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...
Is Bambi a war mongerer.
Obama is a fantasy gone mad.......
Obama’s been to Pakistan before, a long time ago, so he knows all he needs to know about Pakistan. Other people have to study a situation. The Great One just knows.
He doesnt need Pakistan, not part of the photo shoot. Why would the great one have to ask anyone permission. He just does what he wants. I’ more surprised Karzai came out of the bunker to meet with him.
Remember a vote for McCain is a vote against Obama!!
What’s a “no vote?” Is that a vote for Obama too?
Hate to say I told ya so.....but I'm really glad this is posted.
Course we couldn't expect the Obamination Tour of Duty t-shirt wearers to ask this clown the obvious question.
He undermines those governments fighting the Islamofascists.He will "negotiate" (appease) with the Islamofascists.
He slanders our warriors, belittles, demeans, disrespects--and would slash their funding.
He is arrogant, ignorant, malevolent.
Mussolini had a run,too--for a while.
Damn good work...
Makes me think of Al Capone, too!!! (because of Chicago and the militant ACORN gang)
Coming from Obambi, that just sounds funny.
It's embarrassing to have that clueless, arrogant thing running around the world attempting to represent us.
hmmm...methinks he's trying to draw attention to 'the bent one' allowing OSBL to get away.
Policy wise he’s Section 8.
Thanks...
Every time I see the little twit pictured in photo-ops with Leaders of nations he is visiting, he reminds me of one of those skinny crack dealers one sees on the street corners in the urban ghettos of America...
It's truly embarassing!
The Muslim weenie would not dream of harming his idol Osama bin Laden.
Osama bin Laden is the fleshing-out of Obi's Muslim-Marxist-racist-HateAmerica obsession.
“...his first stop should have been Pakistan.”
I guess he’s heard of Benazir Bhutto. ;’) Thanks Ernest.
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