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Logan to Obama: Remind me, how does your policy on the Pakistani tribal areas differ from Bushs?
posted at 4:45 pm on July 21, 2008 by Allahpundit
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It doesnt really. If he gets Bin Laden in the crosshairs, hell shoot to kill as will Bush, a point Obama concedes. If he gets Al Qaedas training camps in the crosshairs, hell pressure Pakistan to move against them, a strategy thats failed dismally under the GOP but which will work like a charm, I suppose, once its infused with magic Messiah mojo and greenmail in the form of a tripling in the amount of non-military aid we currently send to the country. Are Pakistanis really going to jettison their ethno-religious identification with denizens of the tribal areas and go storming into AQ camps when their militarys had a hell of a time there over the past few years, just because the amount of U.S. lucre theyre getting increased by some arbitary amount? Cant hurt to try, but set expectation phasers on lowest low.
As for the point noted by Geraghty at the very end, about the Iraq invasion of 2003 leading us to take our eye off the ball in December 2001, Im guessing Obamas thinking of this WaPo piece from 2006. Exit question borrowed from Ace: To the extent that Obamas hinting hell hit the training camps unilaterally if Pakistan balks, does the lefts mantra that killing terrorists only breeds more terrorists apply in that case too or does Barry get to use his get out of talking points free card?
Thanks a million for passing on that good summation of the Obamination and his idiocy.