Obama's masters in panic? Zero drone attacks since NATO supply routes cut

[moderate libertarian]

Not clear if it is related to $400 per gallon gas costs in Afganistan now, these bomb attacks from air sued to kill many civilians about which Obama's masters usually didn't talk about:

The chief of Pakistan's defense committee says Washington put on hold U.S. drone strikes after the deadly November raid along the Afghan border so as not to "worsen" the already strained ties with Islamabad.

There hasn't been a missile strike against militants since the Nov. 26 NATO raid at the Pakistani army border outpost that killed 24 soldiers. That's according to The Long War Journal, a website that tracks the strikes.

It says the 33-day break is the longest ever since the CIA's covert operations began in 2004 against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal regions along the Afghan border.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/1...rone-strikes-after-deadly-raid/#ixzz1h79Alizw

 

[moderate libertarian]

CIA has suspended drone attacks in Pakistan, U.S. officials say

The undeclared halt in CIA attacks in Pakistan, now in its sixth week, aims at reversing a sharp erosion in trust after deadly incidents, including the mistaken attack on soldiers by U.S. gunships.

A Pakistani security officer examines a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed… (Asghar Achakzai, AFP/Getty Images)December 23, 2011|By Ken Dilanian, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Washington —

In an effort to mend badly frayed relations with Pakistan, the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants believed to be involved in cross-border attacks on U.S. troops or facilities in Afghanistan, current and former U.S. officials say.

The pause also comes amid an intensifying debate in the Obama administration over the future of the CIA's covert drone war in Pakistan. The agency has killed dozens of Al Qaeda operatives and hundreds of low-ranking fighters there since the first Predator strike in 2004, but the program has infuriated many Pakistanis.

Some officials in the State Department and the National Security Council say many of the airstrikes are counterproductive. They argue that rank-and-file militants are easy to replace, and that Pakistani claims of civilian casualties, which the U.S. disputes, have destabilized the government of President Asif Ali Zardari, a U.S. ally.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/23/world/la-fg-pakistan-cia-drone-20111224

 

[vita3]

You also have to wonder if Iran alleged hacking into our other drone is a factor

 

[moderate libertarian]

That should be a good question.

Another factor to consider, did some military official down the chain decide to end the war in Afghanistan single handidly by creating this crisis and played Obama like a drum?

Obama's Afghan war policy is dead in its tracks at $400 per gallon gas shipped vi air.