So now the Pentagon wants to turn us into even worse war criminals, and bomb a Pakistani city of 850,000.
This is supposedly to get "Al Queda". Who, upon hearing this news, have undoubtedly already left said city and are hiding somewhere else. All ten of them.
Warmongers rejoice! We're gonna slaughter more civilians in the name of "The Obama Doctrine".
I'm so happy I think I'll buy myself an extra Christmas present.
Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in the city of Quetta -- a city with some 850,000 people, according to a report Monday.
The Obama Administration is eyeing Predator aircraft strikes in Quetta in an effort to decapitate the Taliban, according to the LA Times. But the prospect of launching a major attack in a highly populous city has struck some officials as unwise, officials who apparently leaked news of the program to a major US newspaper.
Pakistani officials have also warned that the fallout would be severe.
"We are not a banana republic," the Times quoted a senior Pakistani official as saying. If the United States follows through, the official said, "this might be the end of the road."
Sure, it would be "the end of the road". It would be an act of war upon the country of Pakistan.
Are we prepared to go to war with Pakistan? I guess we are!
Wait. Did Congress ever debate this? Approve of this? Of course not! That's so old-school, the Constitution is just a quaint thing you frame on your wall and pretend to admire.
C'mon, they're just drone strikes. Not really "bombing", right? I mean, it's a radio controlled boy plane that drops firecrackers. They're cool! The operators don't even have to be on site, I mean, the guy or girl doing this can be working from a cubicle some suburb in Virginia, and take a break between bomb strikes to buy themselves a pack of smokes at the nearest 7-11.
They can't be that bad, because Obama loves them! And Obama is a force for good, right? He just wont himself a Peace Price, so he must be a man of peace.
Therefore, drone strikes must be agents of Peace.
ince then, the C.I.A. bombardments have continued at a rapid pace. According to a just completed study by the New America Foundation, the number of drone strikes has risen dramatically since Obama became President. During his first nine and a half months in office, he has authorized as many C.I.A. aerial attacks in Pakistan as George W. Bush did in his final three years in office. The study’s authors, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, report that the Obama Administration has sanctioned at least forty-one C.I.A. missile strikes in Pakistan since taking office—a rate of approximately one bombing a week. So far this year, various estimates suggest, the C.I.A. attacks have killed between three hundred and twenty-six and five hundred and thirty-eight people. Critics say that many of the victims have been innocent bystanders, including children.
In the last week of September alone, there were reportedly four such attacks—three of them in one twenty-four-hour period.
At any given moment, a former White House counterterrorism official says, the C.I.A. has multiple drones flying over Pakistan, scouting for targets. According to the official, “there are so many drones” in the air that arguments have erupted over which remote operators can claim which targets, provoking “command-and-control issues."
And hell, we're already doing this in Pakistan anyway, so who really is gonna notice if we start sending enormous bombs into heavily populated apartment buildings in a city of 850,000?
They're just Muslims, anyway.
And a big earthquake already messed up that city, so who really cares:
Heck, they'll never notice a few more collapsed buildings in that dump.
I'm sure it'll work out great. Just like those "surgical" strikes in Baghdad that were gonna take out Saddam Hussein. Who knew that guy could be so sneaky and not get blowed up by our bombs?
And the collateral damage is nothing a few good doctors can't fix:
Oh wait, except for the dead ones:
At least they won't grow up to be terrorists, right? Right!
And don't forget:
Predator drones are flown by civilians,.
Isn't that just kind of creepy?