[Peace-discuss] Obama's Xmas Eve

[C. G. Estabrook]

During the campaign, Obama's U.N. representative sneered at how ineffective Bush 
was at killing Pakistanis.  (His drone attacks were "baby steps," she said.) She 
said Obama would much expand attacks on Pakistan, and he has.

Pakistan is the real object in the "eastern front" of the Mideast war because US 
planners fear that opposition from Pakistan -- 2/3 of US population, a larger 
army, and nuclear weapons -- could seriously compromise US control of the region 
& its energy resources.

I think the Pakistani supreme court's attack on president Zardari this week is 
motivated at least in part by fear that the pliant Zardari can be manipulated by 
the US.  --CGE


Ed Mandel wrote:
> Does this mean that President Obama, 2009  Nobel peace prize recipient, 
> has now started a war with Pakistan?
> 
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>  > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:32:32 -0600
>  > From: galliher at illinois.edu
>  > To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
>  > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Obama's Xmas Eve
>  >
>  > "A pair of US drone strikes, using multiple drones and nearly a dozen 
> missiles,
>  > attacked Pakistan’s North Waziristan Agency today, killing at least 
> 17 people
>  > and wounding an unknown number of others." December 17, 2009
>  >
>  >
>  > While the Shepherds watched their flocks by night
>  > All seated on the ground
>  > A high-explosive shell came down
>  > And mutton rained around.
>  >
>  >
>  > --Saki, 1915
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