Comments on: U.S. Drones Have al Qaeda On the Run

Strikes by CIA Drones to al Qaeda Sanctuaries in Pakistan Are Working

[ayatoldya]

What is missing from this article?
Pakistan Govt. says the Taliban is willing to talk to the US. In a moments notice, the Pakistan Secret Service can set up a meeting with the top Taliban leaders for negotiation.

What is wrong with this picture? Most obvious is: If the Pakistan Secret Service can arrange a meeting between the Taliban ans US officials so easily, Why Couldn't The Pakistan Secret Service arrange for the US to at least arrest these Taliban leaders?

[tmittelstaed]

because these so-called "top Taliban leaders" won't be at the meeting, nor will out top leaders, either. Instead, low-level proxies will meet and work out the details. Only when the treaty is finalized will there be a photo-op session where any top leaders actually show up.

[andacar]

Just curious Darthcheney, can you define what a "liberal" is? Other than with some insulting diatribe that is...

[libftw]

The drones were a good idea under Bush and they are a good idea under Obama. (and kudos to Obama for using them, I can only imagine the grief it must be causing him from the surrender monkeys in the party) I'm also grateful that he's not abandoning the Iragis, but standing by for a while to make sure they've got their legs under them. Not forever mind you, but for a while. I guess I'm a Blue Dog, but I never thought of myself that way. All I know is the freak show branch of our party will put the GOP back in power if the adults on our side of the aisle don't smack them down. I know there seems to be a conflict between wanting a civilized world and wanting to blow the hell out of those that want to destroy it (and knowing innocents will be killed doing so by both sides). But these UAVs are a much better tool that the old B17s, just ask the folks from Dresden. al Qaeda and allies are literally cavemen. Dangerous homicidal brutes. As long as they keep coming, we need to keep killing them. Time will eventually pass them by. If it takes a hundred years it take a hundred years. You can already see the Muslim rebirth starting. There is hope.

[vietnamwar]

Bush to blame because he's the one who started using drones against al Qaeda?

and now Obama also continue on Bush wiretap policy...

It all Bush fault.....ha hah heh heh heh he

[darthcheney345]

reveal5, did you have a point?

[darthcheney345]

by ToolMangler1 July 10, 2009 7:34 PM PDT
If the shrub had let the agents do their job and get Bin Laden then "NOT" invade Iraq, this whole mess would have been avoided.
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Hey, confused guy. Guess what - this story is about PAKISTAN, not Iraq.

Pakistan is next to AFGHANISTAN.

Are you saying we were wrong to remove the government of Afghanistan after 9/11??????

Helooooooo....

[leolionhearted]

Wow! We're finally winning the war on terrorism by killing innocent children and women. I am so proud to be an American! So proud! I'm weeping. Let's win this war, just like we did in Vietnam and with drugs.

Happy!

[darthcheney345]

That was unforgivable.

[ajk_cbsnews]

Please! No one cares about 9/11! And discussing the real evidence - oh come now! We all know Hussein did it, that's why we attacked Iraq! I have to go now, my favorite show is coming up in a minute on *** News!

[ajk_cbsnews]

I want to know the source for this article! Propaganda!

[sass30617]

Why do you think fighting is justified? Why does any thing connected to this mess have to be justified? Oh thats right, we deserved what we got on 9/11. Just once I would like to see folks say, good maybe we are reaching a turning point, Sooner rather than later, maybe the fighting will be over and our people can come home, with the problem solved so people don't have to kill each other!!!!

[hawksprings]

Wow, our State Run Media is actually posting good news about our military in Pakistan?
Well, they must prop up their Messiah no matter what.

[hankvreeland]

ubrew12
Read what I said. In wartime civilians are the un-uniformed branch of the Army. Without their support no army can function. Therefor there is no such thing as collateral damage. This applies to us as it does to all nations.

[imnho]

It is an unfortune fact of life that some unintended collateral damage comes with any war. Its tragic rhat it happen; but AQL needs to be distroyed. These basket cases are like Star Trek borgs. You cannot reason with them or deter them. They will not stop until the kill us or we sent them to have a premautre meeting with Allah.

[voxpopulus]

Underground resistance by residents of the invaded countries caused far more "deadly recriminations" from the Nazis. The point was to stop that resistance. I guess you feel that once invaded and terrorised you should just give up.

[ToolMangler1]

by darthcheney345 July 10, 2009 7:01 PM PDT
Obviously, that justifies the murder of innocent people.
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So, is Obama to blame for that because it's happening on his watch?
Or is Bush to blame because he's the one who started using drones against al Qaeda?
Or, as other liberal posters have written, if drones are good then Obama deserves the credit for using them.
Even though Bush is the one who started using them.
This is so confusing for liberals



If the shrub had let the agents do their job and get Bin Laden then "NOT" invade Iraq, this whole mess would have been avoided.
Remember, Saddam Hated Bin Lade and Alky aida......

[John_Merritt]

Brooklyn:

Well done. Good piece. Anybody that is the home to MY DODGERS is a friend of mine. Thanks for giving up on them, they sure have brought me a lot of happiness in my life. See what happens when a person keeps calling another 'ya bum'. They might leave forever. Have a good weekend Brooklyn.

[wyodutch]

If we're going to assassinate people with drones... then let's all pledge not to whine and moan when the opposition uses their equivalent... an explosive vest.

[darthcheney345]

Once again, we didn't invent armed drones.

The Nazi V-1 Buzz Bomb was an armed drone.

And comparing a drone to a fanatical suicide bomber makes no sense.

The Japanese used Kamikazi pilots because they couldn't make drones.

The whole point of a drone is so that a human pilot DOESN'T have to get killed.

So a drone is more like the OPPOSITE of a suicide bomber.

[darthcheney345]

The Nazi V-1 Buzzbomb was a drone.

Don't blame us for drones.

[darthcheney345]

reveal5, did you have a point?

[darthcheney345]

Obama is just continuing the Bush airstrikes.
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Yes, isn't amazing how Obama can do nothing, or even just continue Bush policy, and the liberals all gush over what a genius he is????

[ubrew12]

hankvreeland said: "Knighthood went out of style a long time ago"
In defense of knighthood, it was the Predator of its day. Roam above the crowd, unassailable, until you dealt death from the sky. (then the English had to go ahead and invent the longbow...)