(h/t Zennie’s Zeigeist)
CNN’s Ruben Navarette writes:
This week, like a lot of Americans, I have Pakistan on my mind — again.
The last time was in August when that country made a cameo appearance in the 2008 presidential campaign. When Sen. Barack Obama suggested getting out of Iraq and moving “onto the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” and then pledged, if elected president, to go into Pakistan if our military was in hot pursuit of “high-value terrorist targets” (read: Osama bin Laden), his opponents pounced.
Rudy Giuliani suggested that Obama should be more accommodating of Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Mitt Romney said that Obama was “confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies.” Sen. John McCain called Obama’s remarks “kind of typical of his naivete.” And Sen. Hillary Clinton said that Obama’s foreign policy views were “irresponsible and frankly naive.”
And while U.S. intelligence agencies put bin Laden in the remote tribal areas of western Pakistan, the Pakistani ambassador to the United States insisted that, if the U.S. military went into his country after bin Laden, it would destabilize the region.
You don’t say. What do you call what is happening now?
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