Naive Obama; invade Pakistan

In a stunning display of naivete`, Barack Obama, according to the Associated Press, would invade Pakistan to kill “terror leaders” without local permission;

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission if warranted — an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.

Well, if that’s not naive personified, I don’t know what is. Of course, the Democrats all think that the goal of our war against terror is to “get” bin Laden, as if all the terrorists in the world would just cease activities as a result. We’ve all seen how quickly terrorist leaders are replaced when we’ve removed them from their operations, well, all of us except the Democrats apparently.

The goal of this war is to deny these heathens an unassailable training and operational base like the al Qaeda enjoyed in Afghanistan – it’s not to kill their leaders. That’s something out of the Middle Ages. Since Napolean, Grant and Sherman, the rest of the world understood that the only successful way to defeat and enemy is to deny them resources. Hitler’s Russian campaign failed because he targeted cities instead of seizing the Soviet Union’s resources first and strangling the Soviet Army.

And can you imagine the howl we’d hear from the Left if George W. Bush had said this? Harry Reid would be trampling Congressional pages rushing to get to the microphone to condemn this plan as “expanding the war” and he’d probably throw in some Nixon and Cambodia references for good measure.

Reuter’s gets the big money quote on Obama’s plan for failure;

Obama also criticized President George W. Bush’s emphasis on al Qaeda in Iraq and said as president he would end the war in Iraq and refocus efforts on the al Qaeda threat in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The president would have us believe that every bomb in Baghdad is part of al Qaeda’s war against us, not an Iraqi civil war. He elevates al Qaeda in Iraq — which didn’t exist before our invasion — and overlooks the people who hit us on 9/11, who are training new recruits in Pakistan,” Obama said.

So, simply by denying that there’s a war against al Qaeda in Iraq, that’ll solve the problem. The war against terror isn’t about revenge for 9-11, Barack, no matter how hard you want that to be so. It’s about our future and making terror attacks too expensive in terms of lives and treasure for our enemies. And we don’t do that by making enemies out of our few allies in the war.

Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War