Obama says he wants to hunt terrorisits in Pakistan. Is he on the right path?

Answer 1

No. He's declaring new foreign policies and issuing ultimatums to foreign leaders, which is most definitely NOT his job. Congressman know thy place. It's a crime for an American to undermine or usurp the official foreign policy apparatus. He should be arrested.

Answer 2

Absolutely, Obama is on the right path.

Granted, the Pakistan situation is tricky--and actual action will need to be planned and executed very carefully. But Bush pulled most of our resources out of Afghanistan 5 years ago, and thus gave al-Qaida and the Taliban a free ride.

As a result, the terrorists' leadership, organization, training camps, and other resources have been rebuilt by Osama with little effort on our part to stop them. We've wasted 5 years and thousands of American lives in an invasion of a country that didn't attack us and wasn't a threat--all to further Bush's fantasy of an American empire.

Obama is jsut trying to get us back on the right track: if we use military force, go after our real enemies, not a right-wing boogeyman.

Answer 3

the sad thing is all the people answering have no clue about pakistan and its vulnerability. First off the only way we could get into the mountains is through the sea. We would have to create a line of communication which means by air. Musharef has kept a tight rope situation in his country and has been able to keep the radicals at bay. There has been a minimum of 5 attempts on his life and many if his leaders have been killed. The reason he hasnt been persued more is that he hasnt pressed on the mountainous waziristan. If he allows us or doesnt stop us from attacking he will be overthrown. Then we have terrorist organizations that have nuclear weapons. Pakistans legal system allows multiple people to have access to their nuclear weapons. Their military generals have access to initiate war heads without government officials. Obama knows all this very well but he is playing to the uneducated netroots that have no clue on how bad it would be if the semi sane govt of pakistan is aloud to fall. and to go back if we loose our ability to control the air, which we would if Musharef falls we would lose any communication and supply lines that were not sea bound. which again you cant control all of waziristan in that manner.

Answer 4

Of course he's on the right path. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are very close to the Afghan border in a remote, mountainous region. Crossing the border to destroy those bases is not exactly hunting terrorists across Pakistan. I'm sure Musharaff would dutifully protest the incursion, or claim it was a joint op. His choice.

Answer 5

After Tora Bora, Bin Laden and crew ran off into the Pakistani mountains. There, they are almost untouchable. Rooting them out in Pakistan makes sense.

The plan is pretty solid and well thought out. Almost Presidential, something I bet the rest of the Democratic candidates didn't want to see this early. It would be interesting to see how Hilary responds. I'm hoping it's not with even more cleveage.

Answer 6

Yes, he is and so are the other candidates, such as Sen. Clinton, who understand that while we police a civil war in Baghdad, Al Queda is gearing up in other areas, one of them, notably, northwest Pakistan. Trouble is that Pakistan is a very very touchy situation and has to be handled with kid gloves. We have also learned this past week, that he might need some lessons in diplomacy and procedure before he runs off and makes the same mistake JFK did in the first days of his term.

Answer 7

Well since day one we have heard that Bin Laden is in the hills of Pakistan so I think he is on the right path. But if a repub gets elected in '08 we will stay out of Pakistan and invade New Zealand or some other country that had nothing to do with 9/11. I guess it wouldn't be New Zealand, there's no money in it. Repubs, not all of them, but the majority make me sick to my stomach.

Answer 8

YES....

My boyfriend was on the pakistan border for 6 months and that is where Osama Bin Landen is hiding they know right where he is but they will not go and get him!

I think we should take out every bad perosn we can find, no matter what country they are in. Obama has the right idea!

Answer 9

You need to hunt them down where they are, not create another country for them to operate out of like Iraq. Personally I think Osama is at the ranch in Crawford

Answer 10

Hunting terrorists doesn't make any sense to me. No matter how long we hunt them or how many we kill, our foreign policy will continue to make most of the Muslim countries a fertile breeding ground for terrorism.

I don't believe terrorists hate us for our freedom - that's one of the stupidest things imaginable. They hate us due to a cultural gap that we're not doing anything to bridge.

I like Obama, but I don't think hunting terrorists is going to do a damn thing to stem terrorism.

Answer 11

Correction: He said he WOULD hunt them in Pakistan IF their government refused to do so themselves.

I hesitate to spread our troops further, into more countries, spreading more ill will. If there was significant evidence of a specific location of specific terrorists in Pakistan, I would support the maneuver IF the mission did not extend further than hunting those specific terrorists.