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2009-08-19 India-Pakistan

Drone attacks fuelling anti-US feelings, PM tells Holbrooke

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Posted by Fred 2009-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 Horse$hit. They'll say anything they think works to get their hands on this tech. Why do you suppose that is? We do their work for them. Must have plans to sell it to someone.

Posted by gorb 2009-08-19 01:41|| 2009-08-19 01:41|| Front Page Top

#2 concomitant collateral damage was exploited by the extremists for fuelling anti-Americanism in the country, he added

The amazing thing is how long lines like this worked.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-08-19 04:20|| 2009-08-19 04:20|| Front Page Top

#3 How about -

Anti-terrorists Feelings Fueling More Drones

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-08-19 08:37|| 2009-08-19 08:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Well about 95% of the political appointees and an astonishing number of regulars, incl. in uniform, would swallow this whole and even point to it as vindication. Come on, you loutish linear thinkers, starting eating soup with a knife, winning hearts and minds, etc. There are no military solutions to military problems. Start getting with the program or it's more graduate education for you.

Posted by Verlaine">Verlaine 2009-08-19 12:36|| 2009-08-19 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 clearly this requires a military AND political AND economic solution. And hearts and minds matter.

But drones can get very high value targets that cannot be gotten any other way. To say something has a cost, does not mean there wont be times when the benefit justifies the cost. The US military knows that. The US administration knows that. And the Pakistani govt knows that. It benefits the Pakistani govt to appear to push back on drone strikes. As much of a stretch as it is, some Pakistanis apparently actually believe that pushback is not just for show. Which I can only attribute to the backward state of the Pakistani educational system, low literacy levels, etc, etc.

Posted by liberal hawk 2009-08-19 14:51|| 2009-08-19 14:51|| Front Page Top

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