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Obama on Pakistan and going after OBL unilaterally with or without Pakistan's ok, plays well with truck drivers, vets, good ole boys and young people with little grasp of geopolitics. It's the offset to his consistent opposition to Iraq.
It's to say "I can be tough when the cause is right."
But it could backfire on him at home if the case can be made that unilaterally going into Pakistan is really no different than unilaterally going into Iraq. To do that, both actions have to be reduced to basic principles. If it's ok to bull our way into Pakistan to go after OBL why is it not ok to bull our way into Iraq to establish a beachhead against terrorism. And mistakes made in Iraq don't mitigate the principle. What if no mistakes had been made? And what is to say that mistakes won't be made if we go into Pakistan? "Senator, how can you be sure that no mistakes will be made?" "What if Pakistani forces move to oppose us?" etc.
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