Obama Attacks in Pakistan Enraging Citizens

In an interview with USA Today, John Kerry (Partisan-D Mass.) made stunning statements that unsurprisingly the media is not picking up on.  In the interview Kerry took the opportunity first to bash the Obama administration for its lack of a “real strategy” in dealing with Pakistan.  But more on that in a minute.  

If you read to the end of the USA Today article you would find something quite interesting.  Kerry said  that the unmanned US drone aircraft attacks that Obama authorized, have “had a dramatic impact” and then he said, “I think that is one of the reasons why people are screaming about it,” adding that he “did not think there has been inordinate civilian casualties.”  

I haven’t heard this reported anywhere, but apparently, based on Kerry’s statements, Pakistani citizens are up-in-arms mad about what appears to have been an “inordinate number of civilian casualties.”  This is something that would have been front-page news all around the country had it occurred under the Bush administration.  However, under the Obama administration it’s buried so deep that it goes completely uncommented on in the mainstream media.  Where is the outrage that Obama has “murdered innocent civilians”?  You know there would have been an uproar from the Left if it had happened under Bush.  

In the other stunning development from John Kerry’s interview with USA Today, Kerry attacked the Obama administration for lacking a “real strategy” for handling Pakistan. John Kerry has been a staunch supporter of Barack Obama.  For a Democratic senator to be this public with such a serious criticism even before the president’s first 100 days are up is almost unprecedented. It seems to suggest it must be far worse than we can imagine.  

Kerry said, “Pakistan is in a moment of peril and I believe there is not in place yet an adequate policy or plan to deal with it.”   According to USA Today ”Kerry’s comments amounted to one of the sharpest appraisals by a Democrat of one of Obama’s signature foreign policies.

Tags: Pakistan, terrorism

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