I woke up this morning flipping through the channels and came across FOX news talking about these air strikes conducted Friday. There are apparently quite a few Pakistani protesters very upset with the USA because of these air strikes.
From what I have heard, Ayman al-zawahiri was invited to dinner at a village. This man is considered to be Osma's top lieutenant, and therefore an important military target. So the CIA is said to have conducted an air strike on this village in hopes of killing Ayman al-zawahiri, but in the process (Obviously) killed innocent civilians. This includes women and children so I here (Which should not be surprising. They bombed a VILLAGE!). Even worse, it is now believed that Ayman al-zawahiri was actually never there, regardless of the invitation, and rather passed it up.
The death toll I last saw was 17 people, which may or may not change. So basically someone (The CIA has been accused so far, which entails the accusing of the USA by Pakistanis) decided that it would be a good idea/OK to bomb the living day lights out of a VILLAGE, because a top official of Osma's was INVITED to dinner there. Did they have confirmation he was there? Doesn't seem they cared. Just bomb it, they aren't Americans anyways. Right? Who cares! They aren't Americans! Heck, they are only Pakistani humans!
What in the heck are the people in charge of these air strikes thinking? What do you think 9/11 was? The terrorists poking fun at us? The terrorists laughing because they killed Americans? It was an ECONOMIC TARGET. Why the world trade center? To harm the USA economy! Did the terrorists realize innocent people would be in the building? Surely, in the same regard that the American officials knew innocent people would be in that VILLAGE! So I ask again, what the heck were they thinking???
They have stooped down to the level of the terrorists, who they have condemned. They have made themselves no better than the terrorists. Is this the way they really want to fight the "War on Terror." Because I guarantee you this sort of strategy will only hurt the USA's efforts. First of all, it will eventually tick off our allies in the region. Without their support, the USA loses a great deal of hope in defeating their relentless enemy. Not only this, but if the USA continues to bomb civilian targets they will continue to earn the outrage and anger of the people they are bombing. You know what this means? These people WILL HELP THE TERRORISTS! SIDE WITH THE TERRORISTS! The terrorists will say "See. I told you they are evil. Now help us defeat them."
The USA can not win a war like this without the support of the people, unless they flat out kill the entire population.
(http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181742,00.html)
