Change, yes. Hope, no. President’s Pakastani policy not having hoped for effect.

November 19, 2009, 12:30 am · 0 comments

Bringing hope and change to the Pakistani Taliban

While we’re not sure that fomenting a civil war in Pakistan was part of the change that President Obama campaigned for, it certainly appears to be the result of his “changed” foreign policy in AfPak.

Pakistani Taliban militants vowed to fight a tough, protracted guerrilla war against the army on Tuesday as a suicide car-bomber killed up to 20 people in a northwestern town, police said.

Yup, insisting that the Pakistani Army go on the offensive in Wazirastan is having the opposite of the hoped for effect:

The militants have responded with intensified attacks in towns and cities since the offensive was launched, killing several hundred people.
In the latest attack, a suicide bomber in a car set off explosives… in the center of Charsadda, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of the city of Peshawar, killing up to 20 people and wounding at least 30, town police chief Riaz Khan said.”
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq speaking of the offensive:
“They are capturing roads while our people are still operating in the forests and mountains.”
“We have started guerrilla war against the Pakistani army. We’ve carried out several actions against the army and inflicted heavy losses on them,” he said.

Way to go, Team O. Picking up where Team Cheney left off? Escalating it to further destabilize a nuclear-armed nation? Brilliant!

Source: Reuters

Tagged as: Barack Obama, Pakistan, Taliban

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