The new "surge" against Pakistan is not limited to attacks on "militants" (the description now given to any Pakistani -- man, woman or child -- who is killed by American ordnance) but is also being waged against the forces of the Pakistani government itself. After a weekend bombing blitzkrieg across Pakistan's supposedly sovereign border that left more than 50 people dead, American forces launched a pre-dawn helicopter raid on Thursday which hammered two posts of Pakistan's Frontier Corps, killing three soldiers. That is to say, three allied soldiers of an army that has lost hundreds of men fighting (and killing and displacing) its own people at the behest of Washington.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/...
Strangely upset by an ally killing their soldiers, the Pakistani government closed off the better of our two supply routes into Afghanistan - which together account for three-quarters of our troops' logistical support.
Oh... and some "militants" - again, for which you should read "the people who live there" - set fire to 27 NATO fuel boats.
Rather than striking a conciliatory tone to tamp down growing unrest by Pakistan in response to ongoing US abuse, however, the Obama administration has chosen instead to venture into even more provocative behavior, planting suggestions in Friday’s Washington Post that the US would not be upset if there were a military coup in Pakistan.
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/...
Did I mention that this ally whose soldiers we're killing - the one with the shaky government we've said we'd like to see overthrown - has dozens of nuclear weapons?
Would any of Obama's supporters care to try defending this insanity?