What's new

Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan

lem34

FULL MEMBER

New Recruit

Joined
Jun 3, 2011
Messages
4
Reaction score
0
Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan

Published: 07 June, 2012, 01:40

Operation Iraqi Freedom and their episode in Afghanistan is almost over. Now, though, it looks like the US is calling its operation in Pakistan an actual war.
Only one day after American officials announced that US troops executed an alleged al-Qaeda higher-up with a drone strike in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters on Wednesday that America’s fair-weather ally is indeed serving as a battlefront in the War on Terror.
“We are fighting a war in the FATA, we are fighting a war against terrorism,” Secretary Panetta said this week. Panetta was referring to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a region in northwest Pakistan that is currently the scene of American airstrikes.
Since well before the top-secret raid and execution of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden brought US troops into Pakistan, the American military has tried time and time again to sugarcoat its activities overseas. Despite being an at-one-time top ally of the United States, Pakistani officials have continuously condemned the US over Uncle Sam’s continuing air strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Now after years of trying to re-develop those deteriorating ties with Pakistan, the United States’ top military man flatly called his country’s operations in FATA an actual war.
To put it simply, this might not be good news for anyone.
While Panetta’s comment came only a day after the Pentagon confirmed that al-Qaeda’s “number-two in command,” Abu Yahya al-Libi, was executed with a drone strike in the FATA region, it also coincides — coincidently — with a statement made by another former CIA official. Robert Greiner, the one-time head of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, tells reporters this week that America’s mishandling of drone attacks is creating a safe haven for terrorists.
In a report published this week by the UK’s Guardian, Greiner says that ongoing attacks that target a broad and often unspecific range of targets is causing anti-American sentiments to increase faster than the US can actually combat terror. After the US has increased its air strikes in locales such as Pakistan and Yemen, says Greiner, insurgency has only become more rampant.
Because the Obama administration has gone on the record to say that all military-age men in strike zone are considered combatants, Greiner believes that unrest with the US is adding up at a rate that repeated strikes won’t help.
"We have gone a long way down the road of creating a situation where we are creating more enemies than we are removing from the battlefield. We are already there with regards to Pakistan and Afghanistan," says Greiner.
"That brings you to a place where young men, who are typically armed, are in the same area and may hold these militants in a certain form of high regard. If you strike them indiscriminately you are running the risk of creating a terrific amount of popular anger. They have tribes and clans and large families. Now all of a sudden you have a big problem … I am very concerned about the creation of a larger terrorist safe haven in Yemen.”

Well what do the Americans expect when they try to win hearts and minds using bombs. Why would any Pakistani speak positively after this type of behaviour by the AIPAC infested Zionist regime of America
 
. . . . .
I knew India was a proxy but I did not realise that you had become spokesmen for America

He is as much as of a spokesperson for america as you are for Anti-Semitic and Racists around the world.

Well what do the Americans expect when they try to win hearts and minds using bombs. Why would any Pakistani speak positively after this type of behaviour by the AIPAC infested Zionist regime of America
/
 
.
I knew India was a proxy but I did not realise that you had become spokesmen for America
Firstly your comments are uncalled for.

Secondly the title of this thread is definitely misleading. A drone attack is always a sign of war and thats precisely the reason why your politicians have been crying hoarse all this while. Incase you've missed it, your own army is at war with the terrorists in the FATA. Panetta saying those words out loud makes no difference to the ground situation.
 
.
He is as much as of a spokesperson for america as you are for Anti-Semitic and Racists around the world.

Not to forget he is also the spoke person for the USA economy. After all every single thread of his is about USA economy failing. lol
 
. . .
See how great it is that he became a US spokesperson, you seems not even to get an apology which literally is being begged for. Anyways, care to provide the link please.

Stop talking drivel. Its a good way of trying to down op by asking for a link are you incompetent that you couldn't find it? Anyway sycophantic Indian here:

Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan — RT

Stop crying and give the link...

Once again you try to be critical when there is nothing to be critical of sycophant

He is as much as of a spokesperson for america as you are for Anti-Semitic and Racists around the world.

Wow more sycophantic Indian. needs several of you to back your spokesman for America. Oh and stop trying to be sycophants to Israel as well by bringing in the defence of anti Semites in. I do not claim to be a spokesman for anyone other myself. Anyways I am enjoying this morning as I must have wound some sycophant Indians up this morning
 
.
Stop talking drivel. Its a good way of trying to down op by asking for a link are you incompetent that you couldn't find it? Anyway sycophantic Indian here:

Panetta admits that US is at war in Pakistan — RT
If you have an original discussion to be made we can do without a link, but when you copy paste from oh so fair and unbiased sites then we have to first look at the source of it.

Anyways, the link does not work... I dont have to think hard that it is some kind of blog and such..
 
. .
If you have a original dicussion to be made we can do without a link, but when you copy paste from oh so fair and unbiased sites then we have to first look at the source of it.

Anyways, the link does not work... I dont have to think hard that it is some kind of blog and such..

Oh that's it you cant get on the link well more incompetence on your part Indian and the source is not bad no its not Indian source.

Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas".

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...s-very-low-intellect-katju.html#ixzz1x5hQ9VMm
 
.
Oh that's it you cant get on the link well more incompetence on your part Indian and the source is not bad no its not Indian source.

Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has said "most people in India are of a very low intellectual level, steeped in casteism, communalism, superstitions and all kinds of feudal and backward ideas".

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/world-...s-very-low-intellect-katju.html#ixzz1x5hQ9VMm
Stop going offtopic man, now since your link does not work you will fall to every level to derail the topic at hand, a typical megatroll mentality. Please dont quote a Indian news source, quote atleast a Pakistani 'news' source, not some blog.. that too on a statement of US.. how degraded is that..
 
.

Pakistan Defence Latest Posts

Pakistan Affairs Latest Posts

Back
Top Bottom