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Pakistan has strongly condemned a US drone strike that killed at least 17 people and wounded many others in North Waziristan's Miranshah bordering Afghanistan.
In a press release on Wednesday, the Pakistan foreign ministry said the strikes were a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The statement described the attacks as "counterproductive, entail loss of innocent civilian lives and have human rights and humanitarian implications".
Pakistan condemns US drone attack
Imagine that, the Pakistanis don't agree with the US flying over their territory and killing people that the USA sees as terrorists. Why might that be?
I'm sure that, were t here a more powerful nation killing our citizens who are suspected of being bad guys, we'd think it was perfectly OK, after all. Might does make right, doesn't it?
Pakistan condemns US drone attack
Imagine that, the Pakistanis don't agree with the US flying over their territory and killing people that the USA sees as terrorists. Why might that be?
I'm sure that, were t here a more powerful nation killing our citizens who are suspected of being bad guys, we'd think it was perfectly OK, after all. Might does make right, doesn't it?
We may allow that in our "tribal lands" which we claim to have absolutely no control over. Clever how Pakistan has so much sovereign land yet is not a state sponsor of terrorism even while allowing UBL and his ilk to wage war from within its borders. Pakistan should immediately refuse to accept our aid, but I suspect a few billion more will make this "objection" to our actions go away, as ususal.
We may allow that in our "tribal lands" which we claim to have absolutely no control over. Clever how Pakistan has so much sovereign land yet is not a state sponsor of terrorism even while allowing UBL and his ilk to wage war from within its borders. Pakistan should immediately refuse to accept our aid, but I suspect a few billion more will make this "objection" to our actions go away, as ususal.
The suspected militants who were targeted were believed to be from the Haqqani network. U.S. officials consider the Haqqani network to be one of the most dangerous militant factions fighting American troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The leadership of the Haqqani network pledges allegiance to Taliban chief Mullah Omar but operates fairly independently...
Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, militants attacked a police post before dawn Wednesday and killed six policemen, said a local government administrator, Habibullah Khan. Ten policemen were wounded in the attack about 15 miles southeast of the city of Peshawar, said another government official, Feroz Shah. The post was staffed by both paramilitary police from the Frontier Constabulary force and also by tribal policemen. Khan said policemen retaliated in a gun battle that lasted several hours and killed several militants. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. But the Pakistani Taliban have carried out many similar attacks against security personnel in the area.
Any nation that harbors or allows terrorists to operate inside its borders has no right to claim to be anything other than terrorists themselves so far as I'm concerned.
Oh please, if the Pakistanis were as outraged about Muslim extremists (who are killing Pakistanis in far greater bulk) as they are about US drone strikes than maybe their country wouldn't be a haven for Muslim extremists in the first place.Imagine that, the Pakistanis don't agree with the US flying over their territory and killing people that the USA sees as terrorists. Why might that be?
If there were Muslim extremists in the US who were killing American citizens daily and the US government was refusing to address the problem, I would have no problem with another country using our airspace to take military action against them.I'm sure that, were t here a more powerful nation killing our citizens who are suspected of being bad guys, we'd think it was perfectly OK, after all.
Oh please, if the Pakistanis were as outraged about Muslim extremists (who are killing Pakistanis in far greater bulk) as they are about US drone strikes than maybe their country wouldn't be a haven for Muslim extremists in the first place.
If there were Muslim extremists in the US who were killing American citizens daily and the US government was refusing to address the problem, I would have no problem with another country using our airspace to take military action against them.
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Far Left Rule #9 - You must pretend that it’s possible for the military to fight a brutal insurgency that’s indistinguishable from civilians without incurring any loss of civilian life and when civilians are unintentionally killed you must make no distinction between nations, organizations and individuals that kill or injure civilians in order to fight oppression and nations, organizations and individuals that deliberately kill or injure civilians for no other purpose other than to cause havoc or impose oppression.Oh, I think you would, especially when the collateral damage started to make itself manifest.
Far Left Rule #9 - You must pretend that it’s possible for the military to fight a brutal insurgency that’s indistinguishable from civilians without incurring any loss of civilian life and when civilians are unintentionally killed you must make no distinction between nations, organizations and individuals that kill or injure civilians in order to fight oppression and nations, organizations and individuals that deliberately kill or injure civilians for no other purpose other than to cause havoc or impose oppression.
Far right rule #1: It would be OK for a foreign power to fly drones into the USA, as long as the guys that they were targeting were actually bad guys. Moreover, a little collateral damage would be acceptable, as long as our own government wasn't addressing the problem.
Far right rule #1: It would be OK for a foreign power to fly drones into the USA, as long as the guys that they were targeting were actually bad guys. Moreover, a little collateral damage would be acceptable, as long as our own government wasn't addressing the problem.
Pakistan condemns US drone attack
Imagine that, the Pakistanis don't agree with the US flying over their territory and killing people that the USA sees as terrorists. Why might that be?
I'm sure that, were t here a more powerful nation killing our citizens who are suspected of being bad guys, we'd think it was perfectly OK, after all. Might does make right, doesn't it?
Far Left Rule #9 - You must pretend that it’s possible for the military to fight a brutal insurgency that’s indistinguishable from civilians without incurring any loss of civilian life and when civilians are unintentionally killed you must make no distinction between nations, organizations and individuals that kill or injure civilians in order to fight oppression and nations, organizations and individuals that deliberately kill or injure civilians for no other purpose other than to cause havoc or impose oppression.
When there is an explosion here we call it a terrorist attack, when we cause one overseas it's because they were a threat.
A big difference here is we can exercise security and control over our territory and population, and don't have armed factions waging war against foreign nations within our borders
No, we just have armed factions waging war with each other over drug turf.
Actually it's not a precise analogy at all. While I do agree that the US should've extradited Emmanuel Constant, he isn't currently killing Americans the way that Muslim extremists are currently killing Pakistanis (and in far greater numbers than US drones are.)Anyway, this is a relatively precise analogy...and yet oddly, very few people would accept such behavior, and salute their noble allies in Haiti for their performance.
Actually it's not a precise analogy at all. While I do agree that the US should've extradited Emmanuel Constant, he isn't currently killing Americans the way that Muslim extremists are currently killing Pakistanis (and in far greater numbers than US drones are.)
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If Emmanuel Constant was organizing death squads in the US that were killing Americans and the US government was ineffective in stopping it I would have no problem with another country attacking those death squads. I'd be more angry at the incomptence of the US government than I would at the other country's actions.And even if Constant and the rest of the protected rogues gallery were committing ongoing terrorist acts....would you actually support an attack on American soil?
If I was Cuban I'd be more angry at the Castro government for oppressing my country under a dictatorship for five decades than I would be at the US for harboring a Cuban terrorist. If I was Haitian, yes I would be angry at the US for harboring Constant but also mindful of the huge amount of humanitarian support that the US provided to Haiti after their earthquake. And that would probably outweigh my anger over Emmanuel Constant (who is currently in a US prison anyway.)what would be your suggestion for the Haitians in such a situation? Or for Cubans, re the occasional right-wing Cuban terrorist, for that matter? Since the US harbors terrorists and mass killers....what is the remedy?
I based the analogy on the exact words of George W. Bush, who made no such distinctions.
And even if Constant and the rest of the protected rogues gallery were committing ongoing terrorist acts....would you actually support an attack on American soil? And if not...why not?
At any rate, what would be your suggestion for the Haitians in such a situation? Or for Cubans, re the occasional right-wing Cuban terrorist, for that matter? Since the US harbors terrorists and mass killers....what is the remedy?
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