I believe abu hartal is correct, Obama never made inflammatory comments about an outright invasion of Pakistan, he merely said that if Musharraf failed to step up the campaign against Al Qaeda in the mountainous provinces bordering Afghanistan, then the US would conduct strikes of its own, or something like that. Even so... and forgetting for a minute that this would be a flagrant violation of Pakistan's sovereignty, the US' ultimate right and duty to violate other countries' sovereignty being the glue that binds together the neo-con unilateralist and humanitarian interventionist camps of the US imperium... this silly posturing plays into the media and punditocracy conceit that Pakistan is teeming with jihadis, while any non-ideological observer of the scene there will tell you that this is a total falsehood... and it also plays into the notion that the fundamental problem with the Bush regime is its capitulation to "realpolitik," that in fighting the GWOT it is hypocritically collaborating with human rights-violating military dictatorships. Of course Obama's statement was just campaign rhetoric, not an actionable policy, or even one he subscribes to, but in effect what it accomplished was a reinforcing of two neo-con standbys: the world is awash in ultra-dangerous jihadis, and the US must be morally consistent in its treatment of regimes that flout "freedom and democracy" (tm).
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