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Originally Posted by Azure
Lets be realistic here....if you're running for POTUS you don't make ridiculous comments about sending troops into Pakistan without them condoning it, no matter HOW right it is....plus, any operation into Pakistan is probably covert, so Obama needs to shut up about it.
Especially if Pakistan is supposed to be considered an 'ally'.....even if they aren't exactly abiding by 'all' the rules.
I thought we didn't like it when the US attacks sovereign nations?
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It's not the attack of a sovereign nation or its government. It's an elimination of a threat...that was the context of the question and answer. It wasn't an invasion of a country but rather special forces/covert operation going in to eliminate the threat. It's not like Obama saying a covert operation suddenly opens the worlds eyes and shocks them to the core that a country actually has such covert teams.
Again same answer any of the people up for nomination would give. And the same answer any current and past president would give and have done. Like, say Bill Clinton bombing an aspirin factory....which was done on shaky intelligence not the superb intelligence of the question at hand.
It was a perfectly acceptable answer to the question and honestly, a presidential type decision in that answer.