Originally Posted by ManInCamo
I'm gonna say, that as CinC, the pres knows a good bit more, and is privvy to more information that you or I could conceive, via FBI, CIA, NSA, State Dept (of course half of those 'don't exist' )
As far as Pakistan, you have to understand the way we do things. Everything is not always black and white. We play in the grey mud a lot. If something is strategically more important, we will white wash it and use it to our advantage. IE: Pakistan. It was stategially more important to use them as an allie, even if we had to muscle them a bit, in order to gain important grounds, air strips, intel, etc.
We actually go over stuff like this in some of my military classes
But how does that get justified to the public when now it is coming out that they harbored the very enemy that attacked the US?
Not going to be an easy sell at all and right now his credibility as wel as most of his cabinet is shot in the foot by their own guns.
I can just see Colin Powell standing in the background looking like ~> :chuckles: