Sources are indicating that Senator Barack Obama has requested to meet with Pakistani officials to discuss (read: learn about) the political situation in Pakistan and specifically, all matters pertaining to the Bhutto assassination.
Obama has taken some rather hardline stances in the past when it has come to Pakistan. He’s stated in the past that:
- The US should
unilaterally send troops into Pakistan if there is actionable intelligence re: high value terrorist targets. (He later
revisited this statement.)
- US Vice President, Dick Cheney, who currently manages US policy towards Pakistan, should visit Pakistan and
ask President Musharraf to step down.
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Pakistan has many problems — including an anti-democratic president and an Islamist extremist movement that operates freely between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Without having made substantive statements with regard to Pakistan since his botched comment over invading Pakistan (see above), it’s clear that Obama doesn’t have a detailed Pakistan policy the way Senator Joe Biden did. In fact, now that Sen. Biden has quit his election bid for president, there are few, if any remaining candidates, with legitimate Pakistan related policies.....
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