Or so it seems!
I'm sorry, he is compounding his mistakes on that debate stage with rhetoric like this:
The Illinois senator warned Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that he must do more to shut down terrorist operations in his country and evict foreign fighters under an Obama presidency, or Pakistan will risk a U.S. troop invasion and losing hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. military aid."Let me make this clear," Obama said in a speech prepared for delivery at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al-Qaida leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act, we will."
Oh really? We "will" invade a sovereign nation that is technically our ALLY? A nuclear nation at that? Uh-huh, OK, and that would win us friends and present us as in a more diplomatic, less "unilateral" light than we're in now how exactly?
This guy is starting to scare me because polls say he's striking a chord with this stuff, and I don't get it! Can someone please explain to me why they would support someone who would
1) give the terrorists a public heads-up like this, over a year before he's even elected,
2) threaten (yes, threaten) a foreign leader who has been (albeit imperfect, still) an ally in the war against the Islamists.
3) do exactly what Bush is criticized for doing (but has actually never done) which is to openly threaten a nuclear power with invasion if they don't do what we want, when we want them to?
Substitute the name "Giuliani" or "Thompson" or "Romney" for "Obama" and count the nanoseconds before the hew and cry from everyone from the MSM to the Kossaks would be deafening!
So this is what Democrats call "diplomacy? And to think all this time I thought it had something to do with "talking" to our enemies, not "invading" our friends!
I mean, that's what Obama told us last week on that stage. Or is it both? Talking with enemies AND invading friends? I'm so confused, but then again, I don't speak Moonbat.
[Hat tip Klaus]