Re: Military Success, PR Fiasco

On Thu, 5 May 2011, Bruce Geerdes wrote:

>> "desire to kill bin Laden but also to have the world think we did so 
>> respectfully and politely,"
>
> That second part is the problem isn't it? It wasn't exactly respectful 
> to violate Pakistan's sovereignty and that was just the beginning.

Well, at least Obama was up-front about the fact that he *would* violate 
Pakistan's sovereignty if he had to, during the 2008 campaign.  Although I 
think he presented it as something he would do *if* Pakistan didn't 
co-operate in taking Osama out ... whereas it sounds like Pakistan wasn't 
kept in the loop at all on this one.  (And why should they have been? 
Apparently, back in the '90s, they were kept in the loop and someone in 
the Pakistani government warned Osama and he got away.)

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