As Pakistan Backlash Mounts, So Does Opportunity for New Terror Targets
Published May 09, 2011
| FoxNews.com
As Pakistan cries foul over the U.S. raid on Usama bin Laden's compound, President Obama could once again be forced to decide whether to go over the Pakistanis' heads -- or, under their radars -- to capture or kill another high-value terror target.
Evidence from the scene where bin Laden died -- described as the largest intelligence find ever from a senior terror leader -- could lead the United States to other terrorists on Pakistani soil.
With analysts combing through the files for clues on the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri or Taliban chief Mullah Omar, some are calling on Obama to strike while Al Qaeda and its allies are staggering.
"We have no right to keep our troops on the defense dying, when we know where some of the highest-ranking people in the Taliban are," Bing West, former assistant defense secretary, told Fox News on Monday.
I don't think we can trust them anymore. Let's threaten to pull our aid and see if they will be more cooperative. Right now I think they are very embarrassed. They must have had some idea that he was in Pakistan. I say keep up the drone patrols and strikes as needed. Of course with their permission for now.
We need to get out of that area completely, strengthen our defense and intel, and wait for that whole region to melt down and get overrun with terrorists. Just like Bin Laden, the bad ones will get complacent and let their guards down over time and we can pinpoint their training camps and blast them from the air.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Actually, I think we should go after Terrorists wherever they are, but I still haven't come to grips totally with the Killing of Osama Bin Laden. Still too many unanswered questions to me.
I think it's a fundamentally bad idea to bomb village after village with mere hearsay evidence.
(not all cases are like this - but it happens enough to be a problem).
It's kind of like the Illinois death penalty problem. There are villages being bombed without good evidence.
(usually drone attacks)
I'd like a pause in the hostilities, simply so the USA can fine-tune its efforts.
