August 03, 2007
Obama Is Right About Pakistan
I haven't said this out loud. In fact, I've let others post their opinions about Obama suggesting that if Musharraf doesn't get busy destroying the Taliban then we might have to. What do I think? I think Obama finally got a foreign policy statement right.
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Mike Fumento says what I've been thinking:
But give Obama this, he is the first candidate (that I know of) who has called the Pakistanis to task for allowing al Qaeda and other international Islamist terror groups to operate there with impunity. Western Pakistan today is what Afghanistan was on September 10th. Terrorists currently operate in Afghanistan but there's little evidence they operate out of it. SOMEBODY in some way needs to clear out the Pakistani rat's nest and if Obama stirs debate as to how, all power to him.The point of Obama's statement, I think, was not to suggest that we must invade Pakistan, but a warning to the Pakistanis that its either them or us. Preferably them, of course, but let's not rule out the option. If they won't wipe out the al Qaeda safe havens in Pakistan, and we don't do it, then who will?
Yes, I know they have nukes. So do we. And, unlike the Pakistanis, we have the means of delivering them on our enemies.
By taking that threat off the table we give Musharraf another reason to try to negotiate his way out of the present conflict with the Taliban. And I'm always for keeping all options on the table.
Clarification: I'm not suggesting that Obama is right on anything else, nor that he's not uninformed about the very real al Qaeda threat in Iraq, just that he's right about this one particular thing: it's time to start threatening Pakistan again.
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