Pakistanis confront Clinton over drone attacks - AP

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Durn ingrates don't realize that killing their people is for their own good.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_on_re_as/as_clinton

ISLAMABAD – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was confronted repeatedly by Pakistanis Friday as she ended a tense three-day tour of the country, chastised by one woman who said a U.S. program using aerial drones to target terrorists amounted to "executions without trial."

Clinton faced sharp questions from Pakistani civilians about the U.S. effort that uses unmanned aircraft to launch missiles to kill terrorists along the porous, ungoverned border with Afghanistan.

But she refused to go into detail about the classified strikes that have killed both key terror leaders and bystanders, long a source of outrage among Pakistan's population despite an equally deadly campaign of militant-spawned bombings.

Another asked Clinton how she would define terrorism. "Is it the killing of people in drone attacks?" she asked. That woman then asked if Clinton considers drone attacks and bombings like the one that killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Peshawar to both be acts of terrorism. "No, I do not," Clinton replied.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Now, wait a minute

Weren't these drone attacks sanctioned by the Pakistani government?

Well, I guess the Pakistani citizens have complained regularly to the military junta but got nowhere.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. I wonder why we are now compelled to prop up the Pakistani government?

Maybe, just maybe, it's because the Pakistani people aren't all that thrilled about having their people killed by their own army and a bunch foreigners playing with robots.

[Canuckistanian]

4. That's a good question

1. They're NOT going after Al Qaeda
2. They're making deals with Taliban leaders
3. They're NOT searching for OBL (dead OR alive)
4. They're a military dictatorship with an increasingly reduced human rights record

Why, indeed?

[SIMPLYB1980]

3. SoS Clinton.

Doing a great job!