US Predator strikes in Pakistan: Observations ↘
The Long War Journal
By BILL ROGGIO AND ALEXANDER MAYER
The dramatically increased use of covert US air power to target al Qaeda and Taliban assets in Pakistan’s lawless tribal zones has sparked a controversy in the US and abroad. Critics of the airstrikes, which are carried out by unmanned Predator attack aircraft, contend that the actions violate Pakistan’s sovereignty, kill innocent civilians, and make enemies of Pakistani tribesmen. Proponents of the airstrikes say that they are necessary to prevent the next major attack against the West and to disrupt al Qaeda and the Taliban’s operations directed against Coalition forces in Afghanistan.Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, three different front in America’s war in western Asia. This seems disastrous to me, maybe it is time to find a new strategy, the current one just drags us deeper and deeper into a quagmire. Democrats seem to think just like Republicans on the issues of war and peace.
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