Is the US at war with Pakistan?
Yesterday Robert Baer, former CIA agent whose memoir See No Evil inspired the film Syriana, posted a piece at Time mag pointing out that, what with the world reeling from the weekend’s Lehman-AIG-Merrill Lynch triple whammy:
“almost no one noticed that we’re on the brink of war with Pakistan. And, unfortunately, that’s not too much of an exaggeration. On Tuesday, Pakistan’s military ordered its forces along the Afghan border to repulse all future American military incursions into Pakistan.”Â
The roots of Uncle Sam’s advance into Pakistan seem to reach back to January, when Cheney was pounding the table — but in a half-empty War Room. (Secretary of Defense Gates had a prior engagement.)
Yesterday evening — a day after the warning — drone missiles killed five more people in Pakistan, and the government angrily accused the Americans of firing them.
That same afternoon a piece of Pentagon brass in Islamabad had been crassly covering ass for prior infractions …
… while Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was apologizing in Afghanistan for accidentally killing 90 civilians with missiles there in August:
“I think the key for us is, on those rare occasions when we do make a mistake … is to apologise quickly, to compensate the victims quickly and then carry out the investigation.”
Awfully white.
But to the Pakis across the border Gates flipped the bird, telling them tough noogies and we’ll do as we please. To protect ourselves.
Are we at war with Pakistan?
ed says:
Pick up the conversation here:
http://newcombat.net/Conversation/2009/02/20/obama-afghanistan-pakistan/
June 30th, 2010 at 12:59 pm