Obama: US prepared to pursue targets in Pakistan
CNN
03/29/09
President Obama said Sunday that his administration remains prepared to order strikes against ‘high-value’ targets within Pakistan. Obama reiterated a previous assertion that the U.S. military would pursue extremists within Pakistan’s borders after consulting with the Pakistani government...
https://tinyurl.com/d8h8fy
The Obamaites go to war
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
03/30/09
The Obamaites have inherited the central thesis of Bush’s ‘war on terrorism.’ In spite of renaming it, they’ve kept the essential element of the Bushian strategy, which is to mount an offensive campaign, to go after al-Qaeda’s leaders in their nests. Yet this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy. This nonsensical idea that al-Qaeda is a regular military formation, not a viral spore spread throughout the globe, is why bin Laden is laughing at us a decade later. Even if the U.S. succeeded in killing or — better yet — capturing bin Laden, it would have little effect on the effort to eradicate his influence or the movement he created. Indeed, it would promote the world’s most famous terrorist and symbol of evil into a mythic figure, even larger in death than in life, aside from imbuing him with the martyr status all Islamists crave...
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/03/29/af-pak-fever/
Don’t go there, Mr. President!
The Nation
by Tom Hayden
03/27/09
The Obama plan instead will accelerate any plans Al Qaeda commanders have for attacking targets in the United States or Europe. The alternative for Al Qaeda is to risk complete destruction, an American objective that has not been achieved for eight years. A terrorist attack need not be planned or set in motion from a cave in Waziristan. The cadre could already be underground in Washington or London. The real alternative for President Obama should be to maintain a deterrent posture while immediately accelerating diplomacy to meet legitimate Muslim goals, from a Palestinian state to genuine progress on Kashmir. President Obama is right, at least politically, to take very seriously the threat of another 9/11 from any source. Besides the suffering inflicted, it would derail his agenda and perhaps his presidency. This is all the more reason he must understand that by repeatedly threatening to ‘kill Al Qaeda’ he is provoking a hornets’ nest without protection against a devastating sting...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/hayden
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Hayden
03/29/09
President Obama said Sunday that his administration remains prepared to order strikes against ‘high-value’ targets within Pakistan. Obama reiterated a previous assertion that the U.S. military would pursue extremists within Pakistan’s borders after consulting with the Pakistani government...
https://tinyurl.com/d8h8fy
The Obamaites go to war
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
03/30/09
The Obamaites have inherited the central thesis of Bush’s ‘war on terrorism.’ In spite of renaming it, they’ve kept the essential element of the Bushian strategy, which is to mount an offensive campaign, to go after al-Qaeda’s leaders in their nests. Yet this is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy. This nonsensical idea that al-Qaeda is a regular military formation, not a viral spore spread throughout the globe, is why bin Laden is laughing at us a decade later. Even if the U.S. succeeded in killing or — better yet — capturing bin Laden, it would have little effect on the effort to eradicate his influence or the movement he created. Indeed, it would promote the world’s most famous terrorist and symbol of evil into a mythic figure, even larger in death than in life, aside from imbuing him with the martyr status all Islamists crave...
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2009/03/29/af-pak-fever/
Don’t go there, Mr. President!
The Nation
by Tom Hayden
03/27/09
The Obama plan instead will accelerate any plans Al Qaeda commanders have for attacking targets in the United States or Europe. The alternative for Al Qaeda is to risk complete destruction, an American objective that has not been achieved for eight years. A terrorist attack need not be planned or set in motion from a cave in Waziristan. The cadre could already be underground in Washington or London. The real alternative for President Obama should be to maintain a deterrent posture while immediately accelerating diplomacy to meet legitimate Muslim goals, from a Palestinian state to genuine progress on Kashmir. President Obama is right, at least politically, to take very seriously the threat of another 9/11 from any source. Besides the suffering inflicted, it would derail his agenda and perhaps his presidency. This is all the more reason he must understand that by repeatedly threatening to ‘kill Al Qaeda’ he is provoking a hornets’ nest without protection against a devastating sting...
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/hayden
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=raimondo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Hayden
rudkla - 30. Mär, 08:20
