A recent Gallup poll shows that 72% of Pakistanis view the U.S. as an enemy, rather than an ally. This past year has proven their mistrust of America to be sound and logical.
It started last February, when then Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan signed a huge trade deal with Russia.
Yesterday I posted this essay about the apparent coup in Pakistan for the crime of doing business with Russia.
When I did some more digging the whole sordid affair becomes clear.
The propaganda war against Russia is so extreme that it appears that the authorities don't care if their misinformation is obvious.
For instance, UK's Express led with this headline: Putin's ruble meltdown.
Russia! Russia! Russia!--yeah, we know. But have the Dems mentioned just once the Awan Brothers or Pakistan or the ISI or the real sedition that is just sitting under every congress critter's nose? Interestingly the Repugnants are just as silent about this as the Dems, although, so far no one can pin any blame on the Repubbies for this security fiasco, which is correctly termed sedition.
This evening's music features Piedmont blues and gospel singer Rev. Gary Davis. Enjoy!
Rev. Gary Davis - Slow Drag / Cincinnati Flow Rag
This evening's music features Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins.
Back in 2013, in the aftermath of his murder of Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16 year old son, when Mr. Obama was trying to justify his arrogated powers to incinerate people with his fleet of flying death robots, he made certain assertions about the process by which he and his merry minions selected victims [bolding mine]:
First, there must be a legal basis for using lethal force, whether it is against a senior operational leader of a terrorist organization or the forces that organization is using or intends to use to conduct terrorist attacks.
Second, the United States will use lethal force only against a target that poses a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons. It is simply not the case that
all terrorists pose a continuing, imminent threat to U.S. persons; if a terrorist does not pose such a threat, the United States will not use lethal force.Third, the following criteria must be met before
lethal action may be taken:1) Near certainty that the terrorist target is present;
2) Near certainty that non - combatants will not be injured or killed;
3) An assessment that capture is not feasible at the time of the operation;
4) An assessment that the relevant governmental authorities in the country where action is contemplated cannot or will not effectively address the threat to U.S.
persons; and5)An assessment that no other reasonable alternatives exist to effectively address the threat to U.S. persons.
