Free for all drone warfare in Pakistan, our nominal ally.

[MadHound]

"The Obama administration is nearing completion of a detailed counterterrorism manual that is designed to establish clear rules for targeted-killing operations but leaves open a major exemption for the CIA’s campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, U.S. officials said.

The carve-out would allow the CIA to continue pounding al-Qaeda and Taliban targets for a year or more before the agency is forced to comply with more stringent rules spelled out in a classified document that officials have described as a counterterrorism “playbook.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-drone-strikes-will-get-pass-in-counterterrorism-playbook-officials-say/2013/01/19/ca169a20-618d-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html

Geez, if this is how the administration treats our allies, how do they treat their enemies?

Oh, yeah, killing them indiscriminately.

[green for victory]

1. "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over...

their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."



President Jefferson had more faith in people than some of us right about now...

[MadHound]

2. Nice quote,

But what does it have to do with the Obama administration conducting unrestrained drone warfare in Pakistan?