--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > 1) During the campaign, Barack Obama supported the > idea of going after Osamb Bin Laden in SOVEREIGN > Pakistani territory...WITHOUT the permission of > Pakistan! > > 2) Just today, the above statement came back to > haunt Obama when he was asked at a press conference > whether India had that same right to invade a > sovereign nation like Pakistan without their > permission
(BTW, that's the definition of invasion, going into a country without its permission.) > vis a vis the recent terrorist attacks in India. > Obama reiterated his campaign statement by saying: > I think sovereign nations have the right to defend > themselves...and I'll limit my comment to that. > > Wow. Did Obama just give India the green light to > invade Pakistan? Or at least bomb terrorist targets > within the borders of Pakistan? Hmmmm.... You nitwit. Nobody believes sovereign nations don't have the right to defend themselves. That light is always green. He was making a minimalist generic statement, not addressing the India/Pakistan situation (or his earlier campaign statement, for that matter).
