US-Pakistani relations continue to spiral downward toward unseen lows in the wake of Friday nights attack on a pair of Pakistani military bases. But as the situation continues to worsen, the White House today insists that they will not offer any formal condolences or apology for the killings.
The lack of official regret for the killings from the President himself further complicates an already dicey situation, one in which Pakistan has blocked NATO supply routes and is said to be considering banning US warplanes from its airspace. It also makes the narrative from the Pentagon, which insists the attack was an accident, incongruous.
The position isn’t setting well with the US State Department either, with officials saying that any effort to mend the fraying relations with Pakistan is going to require, at the very least, some sort of apology from Obama.
The latest report on the situation says that Obama doesn’t intend to offer any sort of comment one way or another until after the NATO “investigation” into the killings. This too makes the claims that the attack wasn’t “deliberate” all the weaker, as the administration seems to genuinely be unsure at this point if the warplanes deliberately attacked Pakistan or not.
I honestly don't know why the far right law and order conservatives don't love this president? He's Bush on steroids.
Exactly. What turned him into a war lover? Disappointing.
For the same reason the Dems hated Bush even though they supported every war, every defense budget, every illegal plan to spy on Americans, Gitmo and all the rest.
Since the parties are identical in how they rule, the only thing the Republicans have to say is to work up hate for Democrats, and the only thing the Democrats have to say is to work up hate for Republicans.
Because for the right wing, Obama will always be an Uncle Tom.
Probably the same reason the left didn't love baby Bush when he spent his entire administration growing the size of government more than any president since LBJ. If Clinton had grown the size of government as much as Bush did he would have been hailed as the greatest thing since baked bread.
Partisans of the two party fraud derive their values not from right or wrong or logical thought but on whether or not their party is in power. It's all relative to them.
Bingo! That's a very good observation!
Pakistan can be such fun…!!! The Raymond Davis fiasco is beginning to look like a birthday party…!!!
No joking! "Donut" Davis' antics were grade school compared to this. But, then again, who knows what nefarious back stabbing he did before getting booted out.
Just like domestic cops here in America, NATO gets to "investigate" itself. Maybe they'll get two weeks paid vacation as well before they declare that procedure was followed and they did nothing wrong.
All hail the almighty hellfire
smiting our enemies from upon high
shredding bodies in an instant funeral pyre
silencing the lonely death cry
Lands covered in bits of flesh buzzing with flies;
can they fuel the machines of our glory,
the vehicles of our demise.
Flip the channel this is beginning to bore me.
Instead of statesmenship we get brinksmanship. How special. It's a very dangerous game, but then Obama has shown that he likes playing games with "other" people's lives.
What an arrogant son of a beyotch!
For Obama, being president means not only can he kill whomever he wants, but the President never has to say he's sorry.
It takes a big man to say he's sorry.