US: Pakistan Incursion Was ‘Self Defense’
US Claims 'Inherent Right' to Launch Attacks Inside Pakistan
US officials today shrugged off complaints from the Pakistani government about a brief military invasion of Pakistani territory and the killing of at least 60 tribesmen in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas insisting the raids are justified under “the inherent right of self-defense.”
Though the US regularly launches CIA drone strikes against Pakistan’s tribal areas, it has been extremely rare to launch military attacks against the region, with a couple of incidents in 2008 sparking major tension along the border.
And Pakistan has reacted with serious condemnation again today over the most recent attack, insisting it violated their sovereignty. The Pakistan Foreign Office also denied US claims that a secret agreement exists between the two nations.
The US maintains that the people killed were believed to be the same people who had launched an attack earlier in the day in the Khost Province of Afghanistan. It remains unclear how, even if this were true, it would extend into an “imminent danger” situation justifying an attack on an allied nation, since whoever the people were, they were in Pakistani territory at the time they were killed.
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JDonald
September 27th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
The US is sounding more and more like Israel. Their bombing of a nuclear power station in Iraq in the early 80's was called an act of defence. Someone should have made them use the English language dictionary. Maybe defence means to cross a sovereign state line in Yiddish. Now the US is claiming the same nonsense after it entered Pakistani territory, a violation of international law. But of course, it is the bullies of the world, USA and Israel that write the international laws and it all boils down to "might is right". It back to the days of the jungle.
theothercanada
September 27th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
History teaches us that Anglo-Americans have ALWAYS followed and lived by "might is right", all the world's trouble spots are the result of their barbaric and imperialist policies.