Boy, he sure countered that allegation. Does he intend to conquer and hold a country of 157 million people, largely in hard-to-access mountain regions? Or is the plan simply to invade hostile areas like Waziristan, so that we can drive the people there slightly further into the mountains (which they've practiced holding by guerilla warfare for the past three thousand years or so) and in the process destabilize and delegitimize the central government until Musharraf's fragile grip on power fails, and the increasingly strong Islamist movement in the Pakistani military takes over?
I do like him as a "fresh face..." but seeing him on the last debate, he came across as an amateur. If he wants to get serious support in the primary, he's going to need to fill in his foreign policy background with some real understanding, not half-assed grandstanding.
August 2 2007, 16:01:54 UTC 8 years ago