sovereign nation...depleted urainium...women and children killed...he's making more terrorists...no UN approval...unilateral...cowboy justice...Pakistan never attacked us...No consensus of nations...secret military action...won't answer any questions about the attack.
The Pakistan government is fully aware of the drone attacks and they are also cognizant of the Special Forces on the ground directing those attacks that nobody seems to want to talk about.
Al Quaeda, wot's left of them, have set up shop in the FATA region of Pakistan and it is in the best interest of both the US and Pakistan to make life hard for them.
Allowing the drone attacks means staving off a full scale ground troop invasion which might end up further empowering the militant factions within Pakistan. It's not a complete solution but it is better than either A) Doing nothing or B) Opening up a third front in terms of ground war.
Not attacking the source of a lot of the extremist terrorists and only killing the Taliban in Afghanistan is akin to swatting at wasps and never going near the hive.
You do have a serious point about depleted uranium. People really need to rethink that stuff. It is the primary source of the Gulf War syndrome that has adversely affected the health of far too many US troops and in Iraq women are giving birth to monsters due to it's use.
Did you know that DU is used in commercial aircraft as a "space efficient" counterweight and that when a Boeing 747 that has DU in it (1500 kg) crashlands the usual procedure is to remove the top 40 centimeters of top soil from the crash site in order to avoid contamination?
Yes, Spud gets that you were being facetious.
Do you get that Spud is being deadly serious?
America's involvement in both Afghanistan, Iraq and now Pakistan is predicated on Doctrine that states that the US is obligated in terms of national interests to prevent "internal instability" in this area in order to make sure that the flow of oil in that area is not interupted.
Trouble is, Dumbya's reign of errors has done more to create instability than stability.
Spud thinks a lot of that incompetence was deliberate in order to justify a forever war that would enrich the MIC as it impoverished the rest of the country.
Just as Israel have deliberately kept the Palestinians in a state of rage in order to wage their forever war on the occupied territories.
Given the current situation Obama faces, the continued use of drones in order to keep pressure on the AQ remanants is the only real course to take but sooner or later the idea that America cannot and should not babysit the region forever will have to sink in and an exit strategy that does not leave the entire area in flames and hating America/ embracing radical Islam must be enacted.
Spud's opinion.
Wot say you?
Be Well.
