As i said Earlier, Obama firmly believes both Pakistan and US has different trajectories in Afghanistan, To be more frank George W Bush respected the sovereignity of Pakistan to some extent. Intelligence was shared to Pakistan before striking High value targets. Obama does not care about sensitive issues of Pakistan. He sees only US Interests in the region.
I tell you few bottom line points as below, apart from my post #41,:
1. Obama was made president because US/West wanted to have hands of 'blacks' in their dirty works also. there were few cases that few black soldiers refused to work in Iraq which US/West didn't like. also, it was then clear that US was to do few very dirty works in coming years and Obama was best suited doing that. while we can see that even if Mrs Clinton lost election to Obama, we always have a sense that the most powerful person of US is Mrs Clinton, not Obama
2. excessive bombing on Afghan, including many bombings on the marriage ceremonies in hunt of just 2-3 Taliban Fighters, angered Pashtun based in Pakistan's north west states also. they first gave their moral support and then they started fighting with NATO in revenge of their family members who got killed. and whether we accept or not, not every one of Taliban is terrorists, No
, and neither 99% of them are as educated that they may go to a western country and can be a threat to that society. and this much heavy bombings on Afghan finally involved Pashtun majority north west states of Pakistan also since 2007, if I remember, it was the year when drone attacks for WOT extended to Pakistan also, not before that .....
3. US knows that Taliban are funded by many muslim countries so they want to control Afghan anyhow and muslims of the world 'widely' see Taliban as a "Force of Islam against aggression of Christianity". i havent met even a single muslim while living in western countries who dont blame US for Afghan war and in fact, they want to see Taliban winning over US
4. Pakistan might be playing double game and so US. while Pakistan is right on first place to blame US for the mess of Afghan started from 80s. as SU was opponent of US and even if Pakistan was also involved in training and arming Taliban/Al Qaeda, along with CIA, pakistan worked in behalf of US against SU to do so. and right now, drones might be killing 1-2 militants but its mainly pakistani civilians who are suffered the most, not the US's civilians. and hence, US made this mess in Afghan and only Pakistan is paying the cost of it, while US is already arming/funding terror in Syria also......
anyway, I belive the comments from Panetta are more to build pressure on Pakistan, because given the ridicule he heaped on Pakistan from India (of all the places) and Afghanistan, is not something one does if he wants to convince someone to do something for him. And about drone strikes, well, you folks keep shouting that they are illegal, but havent seen you do anything to challenge that since last so many years.. The only conclusion that can be drawn, is that either Pakistan govt is complicit (here's that word again) in these strikes killing its own citizens, or is aware that any formal action they take will get laughed out of any international body due to the known Pakistani support to UN designated terrorist organizations that weaken its claim on its sovreignity violation.
