McCain calls Obama “naïve” for suggesting what the CIA is actually doing!

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/20/185620/216/936/460792
Today Republican Front-runner and America's favorite Mickey Rooney impersonator John McCain, blasted Obama as being "naive" on foreign policy

McCain zeroed in on a speech by Obama in August in which he said he would be prepared to strike Al-Qaeda on Pakistani territory if Islamabad would not respond to actionable intelligence.

"Well, the best idea is to not broadcast what you're going to do. That's naive," McCain {said}...

"You don't broadcast that you are going to bomb a country that is a sovereign nation and that you are dependent on ... in the struggle against (the) Taliban and the sanctuaries which they hold."..

McCain warned America could not afford the "confused leadership of an inexperienced candidate


Strong stuff. Strong, Stupid, Stuff. With utterly Lousy timing. See, while McCain denounced Obama as naive it came to light that on Jan 29th The CIA did exactly what Obama suggested and bagged themselves a top AL-Qaeda bad guy:

In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.

The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.

Having requested the Pakistani government's official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval. The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was notified only as the operation was underway, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.


Now, let's review exactly what Obama said

"There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans," he said. "They are plotting to strike again. . . . If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."


Now golly gee, perhaps its just me, but that sounds exactly like what the CIA just did

and the CIA didn't seem to think themselves naive for doing so, quite the opposite:

Officials say the incident was a model of how Washington often scores its rare victories these days in the fight against al-Qaeda inside Pakistan's national borders: It acts with assistance from well-paid sympathizers inside the country, but without getting the government's formal permission beforehand..

U.S. military officials say, however, that the uneven performance of their Pakistani counterparts increasingly requires that Washington pursue the fight however it can, sometimes following an unorthodox path that leaves in the dark Pakistani military and intelligence officials who at best lack commitment and resolve and at worst lack sympathy for U.S. interests.


hmmm, It sounds almost as if they say that such actions aren't ideal, but often necessary; kinda exactly what Obama said.

What a naif!, What a Rube!, What a Maroon!

Compare Obama's laughable naivety to the clear-eyed hard nosed policies yo John "Ahab" McCain's whose plan for getting Bin Laden is "follow him to the gates of Hell"

By which he means of course, "follow him to gates of hell providing that the appropriate diplomatic clearances from the surrounding political authorities have been received and the appropriate rapprochement with infernal authorities can be reached in time to gain clearance for a pre-negotiated action within appropriate rules of engagement"

SO about that whole "ready on day one" thing....