As regards this previous entry about Obama and Pakistan, I present you with a little snippet from tonights AFL-CIO debate. Full transcript here.
Senator Biden: But folks, I got to say something here. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. The truth of the matter is, none of what you heard earlier is correct. It’s already the policy of the United States, has been for four years, that if there was actionable intelligence, we would go into — into Pakistan. That’s the law.
Secondly, it’s already the law, that I wrote into the law, saying that in fact we don’t cooperation from Musharraf, we cut off his money.
It’s time everybody start to know the facts — the facts.
So it’s already US policy and law to go in to Waziristan if we have to, and it’s already US policy and law to cut off Pakistan’s funding if they don’t work with us to stop bin Laden. The whole kerfuffle, then, does indeed break down to not telling the American people how one might inact foreign policy, were one to be elected.
Oh, except President Bush did just that last year:
President Bush said Wednesday he would order U.S. forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he received good intelligence on the fugitive al Qaeda leader’s location.
“Absolutely,” Bush said.
The president made the comments Wednesday in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
Although Pakistan has said it won’t allow U.S. troops to operate within its territory, “we would take the action necessary to bring him to justice.”
Apparently, the only person who can’t talk about this strategy is Hillary Clinton. And Chris Dodd, when he’s playing lap dog.
