Though Pakistani officials are once again complaining about the regular US air strikes against their territory, CIA Director Leon Panetta today insisted that the attacks would continue. Panetta also was quoted as saying the drone strikes are achieving “100 percent results.”
The Zardari government has been long confirmed to have deals with the Obama Administration about the drone strikes, but a new round of concerns have been issued since this weekend’s incursion by US attack helicopters, and it seems to be extending, at least rhetorically, to the drones as well.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi today insisted he made the country’s position clear that continued strikes are unacceptable, and that the attacks amount to a NATO violation of Pakistan’s territorial integrity.
President Obama has been dramatically escalating the drone attacks since he took office, and has continued that escalation to the point where over 20 attacks have been reported this month alone. Though the US claimed a recent victory with the killing of yet another “al-Qaeda third in command” this week in one of the drone strikes, the claim of 100 percent results appear absurd on the face of them, as he was the first high value target killed in months, and large numbers of civilians have died in the regular attacks.
As I commented till americans are in this region we will suffer and suffer, killed and humiliated. We can learn the same lwsson from Vietnam Combodia etc. as americans left the region is peace.
Present Govt. is corrupt in efficient and americans need such govts.
There will be no change till the nation stands up against biggest terror stae america.
I wish that natural callamities send by God to punish the americans at large.
Enough is enough, brutal,unjust criminal killings.
Yesterday in TV. program was revealed that FBI and CIA is sitting in big cities and responsible for killings.
The stirkes are achieving 100% results as explained below:
1. They are good war news for winning hearts and minds of American public — We are killing them there so they can't come and kill us here.
2. They are creating unrest in the tribal area and deligitimizing the Pakistani government. This helps get recruits for the other side which in turn helps with the continuation of the perpetual war.
3. In the unlikely event of a response from the Pakistani government it will help to escalate the war even more — much needed for our military/industrial complex. Although Pakistan is no match, and is nothing compared to the good old USSR, but would be a 'nice' enemy to keep us in the state of hate and scare for a while.
Yes, 100% results if the purpose is to continue the war in EastAsia. While we dread about what the author of 1984 wrote, our governments probably use it as an instruction manual.
Does the USA know of no other way to conduct international diplomacy than by killing? Within the country there is a continuation of firearms violence that exceeds that of many third world countries. And internationally, the USA and its allies have killed over one million persons over the past ten year. For what? Was the book "How to make friends and influence people" banned from that country? And do the "10 commandments" not apply to the military? When will this 234-year-old country, grow up?
Of course the drone strikes have 100% results- unfortunately, a large percentage of those results just happen to be innocent bystanders, women, children, farm animals, schools, etc., etc., ad nauseum. Often we have no idea who the people on the ground are- they just 'look' like bad guys and that's enough- although I'd be hard-pressed to identify a child as a terrorist from a few miles up in the sky. We don't positively identify who we're attacking to determine enemy from innocent, so for all intents and purposes our drone attacks are nothing more than dressed-up terrorism. We're using a shovel- held by a blind man- to do surgery, and it's a mighty expensive shovel that we throw away and buy over and over each day.
Since the terrorism threat is so prevalent here in Smalltown, USA, when can we expect drone strikes against our own home-grown extremists? We already have a terrorist no-fly watch list- if all those thousands of people are already identified as potential terrorists, why aren't they being rounded up? Why aren't they being targeted each and every day for 'elimination'? Or are we afraid that the sight of dead American children might be too much? Come on now, US Government- we're either on board with anti-terrorism or we aren't. Why do we restrict it to "those people over there" when we have plenty of targets right here? I think the American public would love to see their tax dollars in action in such an up-close and personal way.
At this point I've gone from "God bless the USA" to "God have mercy on the USA".