Here’s another guy, like Jimmy Carter, who needs to keep his mouth shut.
“The drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,990 people in Pakistan, including hundreds of civilians, are unpopular in Pakistan.”
I imagine that figure is ten times lower than the figures for how many have been killed by the Taliban in Pakistan and the Pakistani government’s battles with the Taliban and their religious kin, and likely ten times lower for the civilians who were killed in those skirmishes as well.
But, like so many things Arab or Islamic, what members of an Arab or Islamic community do to each other is culturally accepted but not anything done by the “infidel”. How do we know? The world knows the mass protests in Pakistan over “drone strikes” and the workd knows there have been no mass protests when the Taliban pepetrate murderous attacks on Pakistanis or Afghans.
In the west we call it a double standard, but whether or not that is a correct characterization it is not a winning argument in Islamic dominant cultures because it fails to acknowledge the negative position of the “infidel”, for which there cannot be an “even handed” position in comparison with a Muslim.
The neocons were and are wrong. The people of the world are not all of one mind - on MANY MORE things than they are in agreement on.