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The Northerner

(5,040 posts) Thu Jun 28, 2012, 04:29 PM Jun 2012

Enemies in Deed: US drones & demands hit 'ally' Pakistan

Three in four Pakistanis now consider the U.S. an enemy - according to a new survey published in America. Ties between the two countries have recently hit new lows over the civilian casualties caused by ongoing US drone attacks. More than twenty people have been killed in militant attacks in Pakistan over the past few days alone, adding to the thousands of lives lost since the Washington-led war in Afghanistan began eleven years ago. RT's Gayane Chichakyan takes a closer look at a complicated alliance.

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Enemies in Deed: US drones & demands hit 'ally' Pakistan (Original Post) The Northerner Jun 2012 OP

Shooting Ourselves in the Foot William deB. Mills Jun 2012 #1

Panetta and Clinton laughing and ridiculing. What effing arrogance!! It makes me sick! ... truth2power Jun 2012 #2

William deB. Mills

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1. Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

Reply to The Northerner (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:07 PM

Jun 2012

I don't know if it was stupidity or arrogance (perhaps both; they do go together), but Washington conducted the latest drone attack "just one day before Gen. John Allen, the American commander overseeing the war in Afghanistan, meets with Pakistan's top general." [CNN 6/26/12].

"Killing alleged enemies, much less killing unidentified people, will become more counter-productive the longer it occurs. The argument that the threat is immediate so we cannot wait for long-term solutions is clearly invalidated by the now obvious failure of violence to eliminate an insurgent threat that has been spreading for a decade in violence-ridden Pakistan." ["Do Drones Harm the U.S.?"]

truth2power

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2. Panetta and Clinton laughing and ridiculing. What effing arrogance!! It makes me sick! ...