It's all about Pakistan now

[SteveO]

Those of us who opposed the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq said from the beginning that war was not the answer, using intelligence and law enforcement to track down bin Laden and his lieutenants was the answer. We've been vindicated by the events of the early morning hours on Monday in Abbottabad, Pakistan. wrote:

Why this surgical strike thing never took place in the beginning is just way beyond logic and good sense. But let's face it, 9/11 and Iraq were the only things that kept Bush in office and his military industrial friends in the money. Tragic but true.

I agree with you 100% that we need to look at every dollar going to Pakistan with a microscope and LOUDLY ask "To what aim and what ROI?" I for one could gladly find a use for $20 billion in aid right here at home.

I must vehemently state that our propping up of dictatorships and friends in low places "because our enemies are courting them" is exponentially shortsighted, has gotten us into nothing but trouble and caused nothing but horrid torture, death and generations of suffering across the world whenever we've done it -- 60 years and counting.

Look across the Latin American landscape at all the juntas we've initiated and supported and you'll see innocents (oh, sorry, "communists") piled up in the tens and hundreds of thousands of bodies along with the "disappeared" that our policies have fomented. And look at Suharto in Indonesia. Look at Iran. Look at bin Laden who we were in bed with vs. the Russians. When will we learn that this policy makes no sense?

I don't disagree that Obama is status quo. Or darn close to it. I call him "Bush Lite."