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Monday, November 28, 2011

The Bombings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

(Update Below)

No doubt the response from Obama administration officials will be something like "We understand their frustrations," but the insanity will continue to chase its own tail until it drops, exhausted.  

AFP, today:

Obama burned in effigy, Karachi Pakistan 11/27/11
Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis took to the streets across the country Sunday, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes. 
The rallies were organised by opposition and right-wing Islamist groups in major cities of the nuclear-armed country of 167 million people, where opposition to the government's US alliance is rampant. 
In Karachi, the port city used by the United States to ship supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan, more than 700 people gathered outside the US consulate, an AFP photographer said. 
They shouted: "down with America, stay away Americans, Pakistanis ours, we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our army", while Pakistani riot police were deployed near the consulate. 

Outside the press club in Karachi, dozens of political activists burnt an effigy of President Obama, an AFP photographer added. 
In the central city of Multan, more than 300 activists loyal to the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as local traders took to the streets, burning US and NATO flags. 
They carried placards and banners, and shouted: "down with America," "down with NATO," "Yankees go back", "vacate Afghanistan and Pakistan" and "stop drone attacks" -- a reference to a CIA drone war against Islamist militants. 
Speaking at the rally, opposition lawmaker Javed Hashmi demanded that the government end its alliance in the US-led "war on terror".
Here at home, Obama's War on Terror is considered his strong-suite.  It's the one thing he can't be assailed on, because it's going so very well.

Update 11/29/11

They can't be serious. It's hard to see how anyone in the region is going to believe the latest US explanation.

3 comments:

  1. I'm pretty sure I read (again!) today about Obama's foreign policy "successes." You know, killin' Habibs for Jesus. If that's success, I'd hate to see failure.

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  2. Even if one looks at it from a purely strategic viewpoint--how smart is it, really, to be bombing (1) an ally and (2) an ally whose country all your military supply must be routed?

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  3. Pretty dumb indeed. But give 'em credit; they're busy coming up with a "narrative." Those are always fun to hear.

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