... until he was president before he started alienating other countries. From the Times of India:
Pakistan accused Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama of "sheer ignorance" on Thursday for threatening to launch US military strikes against Al-Qaida on Pakistani soil.
Obama warned on Wednesday that if he is elected president, he would order US forces to hit extremist targets on Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan if embattled military ruler President Pervez Musharraf failed to act.
"Such statements are being made out of sheer ignorance," Pakistan's Minister of State for Information, Tariq Azeem, said.
Of course Pakistan's gov isn't doing as much as we want them to - the place is a wreck. But this Obama is a reckless buffoon; he has no idea what he's doing, no idea about international diplomacy or how to handle American foreign policy, and apparently no understanding of how to navigate the tenuous relationship we have with Pakistan. The guy is a joke - he makes Hillary Clinton look measured and responsible by comparison, and I don't much care for her at all.
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