What truly bothers me is the fact that Pakistan has the audacity to say they are essentially ticked at the U.S. I think I am beginning to understand why Usama was in “plain sight” essentially for all these years. Pakistan felt like the U.S. wouldn’t get him because they had some sort of “authority” over us. Almost like Usama was safe because Pakistan told the U.S. to go away?!
Well, they sort of have to at least pretend outrage for their own domestic consumption. After all, we did violate their territory, and horribly embarrased them in the process. Not only by finding bin Laden under their noses, but because we performed this operation under the noses of their own military whose response was so slow they couldn't do anything about it. Pakistan looks bad for hiding him, looks bad for letting us get in and out so easily, and looks bad for dealing with the reality that they are powerless to do anything about what we did. I mean, that's a lot of international humiliation for the Pakistani military and Intelligence services to deal with. Heh.
So, I'm not getting bent out of shape about this rather pathetic attempt to save some face. It's almost comical at this point, because if they were really outraged, they could at least demand compensation, break off relations or recall their ambassador for consultations, etc. But all they did is say "now don't do that again!"
I think that's pretty funny.