Pakistan: Obama’s Remarks “Ignorant”
Gee, this "muscular" foreign policy position of Barack Obama is sure paying off handsomely in improved foreign relations. Pakistan today reacted - with bitter anger - over Obama's threats.
Obama warned Wednesday that if he is elected president, he would order US forces to hit extremist targets on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan if embattled military ruler President Pervez Musharraf failed to act.
"Such statements are being made out of sheer ignorance," Pakistan's Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, told AFP. "They are not fully apprised about the ground realities and not aware of the efforts by Pakistan."
Islamabad has bristled against a string of similar threats in recent weeks by the administration of US President George W. Bush, whose top counter-terror official in July refused to rule out US strikes in Pakistan.
Musharraf, struggling to contain a wave of Islamist violence unleashed by the army's bloody storming of the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad three weeks ago, himself firmly rejected any US action last week.
"We have said before that we will not allow anyone to infringe our sovereignty," Azeem said.
"If there is any actionable intelligence they should tell us and only our forces will take action on it and they are quite capable of it."
What a brilliant move to improve America's standing with the world, eh?
Politics, World news | Gaius Thursday, 2 August , 2007
By Glenn M. Cassel, AMH1(AW), USN, RET., Thursday, 2 August , 2007 @ 10:03 pm
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I would not serve under Obama as CinC.
Nuff Said.
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By FedUp, Friday, 3 August , 2007 @ 2:45 pm
Foot in mouth disease. I think BO can kiss his chances good-bye!
“what a maroon”
~ Bugs Bunny