Yesterday’s statement from the Pakistani parliament has not changed anything, according to Obama Administration officials, who insist that drone strikes against Pakistan’s tribal area will continue over any objections. They also addressed reports that the reduction in attacks in recent weeks was an effort to placate Pakistan, insisting that the strikes proved how successful the assassination campaign has been, and that it has sent everyone into hiding.
Pakistan’s statement demanded an “immediate cessation of drone attacks inside the territorial borders of Pakistan” and ruled out any NATO operations across border for any reason.
The statement is the latest in a long line of moves by Pakistan to redefine its relationship with the increasingly unpopular US, which has picked up pace since the November 26 US attack on Pakistani army posts, which killed 24 soldiers.
Officials say that the White House is “considering” apologizing for killing the Pakistani troops, but the sheer fact that it is only being considered several months after the fact, and then only because they are hoping to secure supply routes into occupied Afghanistan, is a big part of why relations with the US are a losing issue in Pakistan.
A U.S. Marine was reported killed in Helmand on Thursday, April 12, the second Marine to die in Helmand in two days. Also a U.S. Army soldier died in Kandahar from an IED attack on Wednesday the 11th of April. At least eighteen U.S. soldiers have died in combat over the last twenty days throughout Afghanistan.
I wonder Just how America would react if Mexico IN ITS fight against Drug terrorism decided to fly drones over southern United States and attack US citizens on the basis that they MIGHT have some relation to Drug activity in Mexico, you know supply of weaponry to the cartels, they could even start with BATF headquarters and BATF vehicles. What would the Senators say if Mexico passed a law that said that Mexico has the right to bomb and send in troops to any country that provides money to the cartels in any way whats so ever, you know like the Bushism that the little Swiss lady could be charged with Terrorism because she supplied money to a charity that treated a Terrorist. Any body else see the correlation and then the American Exeptionalism!
Crazy, Loco… Counter Productive…Stupid…. The drones are PR in reverse…!!!
'reduction in U.S. drone strikes […] reflects success in targeting […] forcing militants "underground," a U.S. official said'
So when I stop kicking you in the ____, it means you've started to behave. Guess that means I'm never looking out for the cops or anything wussy like that. That I stopped when they came is just coincidence.
Power corrupts,absolute Power corrupts absolutely.This is American age to play with the world.When those days are over sometime down the road,God knows how America will pay the price for the savagery they inflicted on other nations.Til then keep Dronning Pakistan,here's notbody to stop you,til there will be somebody to stop you.
That there will be payback we can be certain Dr.Khan. And when it arrives, I wonder how many friends the US will have left. And I doubt Israel will be one of them.
The bombastic deadly hypocrisy of fascist, imperialist, amerika has no bounds ! Spirally, insanely out of control; the suffering caused drags the empire deeper into the abyss of failed empires…all totally vital for World Peace.
And most Americans are still totally clueless as to why people hate us. Bush said it was because of our freedom, prosperity and moral goodness, and after diligent and successful efforts by Bush and Obama to diminish all three, they just hate us more!
And the hatred doesn't come form the Middle East only, CassandraSpeaks. What kind of feelings, I ask, can normal human beings have, regardless of religion and ethnic group, when we see the butchery in distant lands. We could perhaps try to understand if this were done as self-defense, but not in the context of boundless ambition and hipocrisy. Yes, we hate the states that arrogantly invade, plunder, destroy and bring suffering to other peoples, and the cry for justice from all these peoples will eventually be heeded. The higher the summit a power reaches, the harder the fall.
It's time for the Pakistani people to clean house: Get rid of your puppet president and parliament who are allowing a foreign empire to violate your sovereignty and murder your fellow citizens with missile attacks on your cities.
NOTHING will change until you change your government. Period.
Just send back a nice surprise to the source of the killing machines… You won't be helpless wogs in their eyes after…