Saturday, May 5, 2012

Obama’s deal with Karzai bans raids on al-Qaida bases in Pakistan

How many coalition lives will this cost?   Once again, Obama has cut the feet out from under our military efforts to defeat Islamists.  Stopping coalition efforts from Afghanistan to disrupt al-Qaida, the Taliban and other Islamists groups in Pakistan can only allow the enemy breathing room to plan and execute more attacks on both sides of the border.

FROM DAILYCALLER.COM:

Obama’s deal with Karzai bans raids on al-Qaida bases in Pakistan

Published: 7:43 AM 05/04/2012

President Barack Obama has promised not to attack Pakistan-based al-Qaida leaders or fighters from bases inside Afghanistan.

The surprising commitment effectively bars Obama and his successors from launching another nighttime helicopter raid like the one that that killed Osama bin Laden. That raid has proven to be Obama’s primary foreign-policy success because it killed bin Laden, scooped up much intelligence data and shocked Pakistan.

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