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    U.S. to Cave in to Pakistan on Drones


    U.S., Pakistan talking about changes in drone ops, official says


    By Pam Benson

    The Obama administration is talking with the Pakistanis about possible changes in the way the U.S. conducts air strikes against terrorists in Pakistan, including providing Pakistan advance notice of attacks, modifying the targets and changing how targets are determined, according to a senior U.S. official who is involved in intelligence matters.

    The official, who would not speak for attribution because of the sensitivity of the issues, said the White House is making a serious mistake by putting the options on the table for the Pakistanis to seize.

    "The big mistake was the administration - I did try to warn them - that once you put it on the table, it will only get worse," the official said. "Sure enough, once they put it on the table, (Pakistan) grabbed it, and they've run with it and now it's the centerpiece of their negotiations."

    The offer to put the issue on the table reportedly was made earlier this year by CIA Director David Petraeus in a meeting with the head of Pakistani intelligence, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha.
    Full article here

    Collasal mistake....
    "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003
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    American IED's.
    "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
    "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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    • #3
      Hey, if you are going to consider them your allies you can't indiscriminately bomb in their borders without recieving approval.
      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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      • #4
        If you are going to consider them allies, they should probably stop funding your enemies and hiding your #1 fugitive.
        If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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        • #5
          Then cut them off.
          "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
          "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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          • #6
            And keep bombing their lawless wastelands.
            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
            ){ :|:& };:

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            • #7
              At least then you'd be honest about the relationship.

              The hypocrisy surrounding Pakistan runs both ways.
              "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
              "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
                ... they should probably stop ... hiding your #1 fugitive.
                They did.
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                "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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                • #9
                  I bet thatif we promised them enough money and gave them advance notice of the strikes that we ould get a high count of "low value" terrorist and very few, if any, "high value" terrorist. It would be like the "body count" thing from Vietnam all over again...a totally meaningless number designed to dupe the American public into believing that success was being achieved.
                  "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
                    Hey, if you are going to consider them your allies you can't indiscriminately bomb in their borders without recieving approval.
                    We bombed the hell out of France during WWII. You think we checked every mission with them ahead of time?
                    John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                    • #11
                      Hmm do you considered it an occupied country?
                      It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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                      • #12
                        I'd say France was a German territory at the time.

                        Edit: Bah!
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post
                          Hey, if you are going to consider them your allies you can't indiscriminately bomb in their borders without recieving approval.
                          What would be the point of launching missions against high value targets then?
                          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Wezil View Post
                            At least then you'd be honest about the relationship.

                            The hypocrisy surrounding Pakistan runs both ways.
                            This it basically it.
                            “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                            - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by rah View Post
                              Hmm do you considered it an occupied country?

                              Now that is an interesting point. Taliban occupied territory?
                              "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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