Obama Spilling His Military Secret's To The Guy He Wants To Attack

[HawkeyeSPF]

Sure we would, but wouldn't we be guilty of harboring a terrorist?

[SomeRandomDude]

What if they come up to us and say that if we're incapable or unwilling to kill this dude, we're gonna land on your soil and take him out ourselves in our own way. Before we've noted whether we're going to help or not. That would make us pretty ticked at North Korea.

[HawkeyeSPF]

First of all, I'm sure we wouldn't be caught unawares that there was a person who had committed acts of terror in our country, just as Pakistan and Afghanistan are aware that Bin-laden is in their countries. Being that we would also want a dangerous person like that dead, I'm sure we wouldn't be as offended as you purport.

But for the sake of argument, let's say that this terrorist somehow slipped into our country after the fact and we were clueless about it. North Korea all of a sudden announces during one of their presidential debates that if we are unable to unwilling to make the kill on this guy that is in our country that they have their sights on, that they will make the kill even though it is on our soil. Would we be surprised and caught off guard? Yes. Would we be pissed off? Maybe, but I don't think the issue would be the kill so much as the lack of communication. If they knew this guy was in our country and knew that we'd side with them about him, why didn't they tell us? Just say "Hey, thought you ought to know that this crazy terrorist French dude that attacked us last year is hiding out in your country. We're not sure where exactly, but we're targeting the Rockies as his hideout. Just FYI, if we spot him, we'll let you know so you can apprehend/kill him. If you can't/won't, just be aware that we're gonna do it then."

Facts being what they are, Afghanistan and Pakistan are quite well aware of Bin-laden's presence in the area. Hopefully, the leadership in those two countries wants him dead as much as we do, and understand the meaning behind Obama's statement.

[sickofpalantirs]

what I get him saying though, especially in the first one is: if you say no, you can attack, we will attack even if you say no...and I think we would be ticked if we told the north koreans we don't want them operating militarily on our soil...and they did.

[MR. Lurtzy]

But the problem is that Bin Laden is not frowned upon by many people there.

[HawkeyeSPF]

Doesn't matter if he's frowned upon by the people, just the governmental bodies - and if they want to have sanctions placed upon them by the international community, then they can go ahead and say Bin-who? I really believe that even if that were the case, that they could be made to see our point of view and cooperate.


(EDIT: Just fixed the italics)

[turin08]

Doesn't matter if he's frowned upon by the people[/], just the governmental bodies - and if they want to have sanctions placed upon them by the international community, then they can go ahead and say Bin-who? I really believe that even if that were the case, that they could be made to see our point of view and cooperate.

It does in Pakistan. The political situation there is incredibly unstable. What the people think matters immensly. Pakistan is on America's side at the moment but if America tries its big bully act to much it may well find that it just won't work when it comes to Pakistan because of the oppinions of the people and because of their powerful freinds in the Muslim world (Iran, Saudi Arabia). It would be a very bad idea for America to push the Muslim nations closer to each other. Do not forget that while Iran is trying to make a Nuke Pakistan already has them and should be taken seriously.