Sarah Palin told a customer at a Philadelphia restaurant on Saturday that the United States should "absolutely" launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the event that it becomes necessary to "stop the terrorists from coming any further in," a comment similar to the one John McCain condemned Barack Obama for making during last night's presidential debate.
During Friday's debate, Obama criticized the Bush administration for sending billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan without ridding the border region of terrorists.
"If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out," Obama added.
McCain fired back hard, arguing that newly elected Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has had his "hands full" and suggesting that Obama's tough talk was na+»ve.
Ha, I can't wait for McCain to call his running mate "naive" (I can think of a lot better adjectives than that, like "complete ignoramus," but I'll leave that for now).
McCain certainly must think I'm naive as well, because I strongly support Obama's position on this: "If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out." The bottom line is that we need to defend ourselves against the Al Qaeda terrorist scumbags who attacked us on 9/11. If John McCain is unwilling to do that, prefers the sideshow in Iraq to dealing with Afghanistan and the lawless regions of western Pakistan where bin Laden is hiding, that's his right. But it's all of OUR right not to vote for the old fool and instead to support someone who will truly - not just rhetorically - put our country first.
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Doctrine of Hot Pursuit (Teddy - 9/28/2008 11:59:13 AM)
is an ancient and completely acceptable rule in international law, so far as I understand it. In other words, if your armed forces are in hot pursuit of a malefactor, and said malefactor skips out of international waters to within the limits of another nation's you are entitled to complete the pursuit. Admittedly, going from Afghanistan into Pakistan is not going from international waters into waters within, say, the three-mile limit, but I think given the tenuous control Pakistan has over Waziristan, and the unclear lines of the border, you can make a good case. Osama and Taliban are the modern, land equivalents of pirates on the high seas in olden times. Good heavens, even today do we not have an American destroyer patrolling for pirates off Somalia?
Of course we have the right to get Bin Laden (Lowell - 9/28/2008 12:01:20 PM)
The guy is responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans, the destruction of the World Trade Towers, etc., etc. If John McCain doesn't think we should go get that motherf***er, then he can take a long drive on a "road to nowhere" off a "bridge to nowhere."
McCain: "That's not a mature answer . . . " (JPTERP - 9/28/2008 12:25:33 PM)
Once again -- all that needs to be said to that answer is "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran"???
Nice meltdown at the end too.
So what i am hearing (thegools - 9/28/2008 1:20:33 PM)
from McCain is this: "If you say something declaritive about your foreign policy stances, it doesn't mean you believe them or even stand behind them. She was just talking. It is just words."
in a public location, when she's running for Vice President, when they've been hiding her for weeks, and when she finally says something that's caught on video/audio. Can McCain's nose grow any longer?
Afghan Border Ops (South County - 9/28/2008 8:51:15 PM)
I find this whole debate silly because we've been carrying out attacks just over the boarder in Pakistan for years. In fact the terrain is so nasty in that region up in the mountains that its very difficult to even tell where the boarder is.