Three US service members were killed and dozens wounded in a drone attack on US forces in Jordan near the Syrian border. Iran-backed groups blamed for the attack, the first deadly strike against US forces since the Israel-Hamas war.
massouds, they re killing pakistan taliban. which means that the pakistanis are happy with that because we re killing the people who have been targeting their cities and their government? yeah, that s right. i mean, one of the attacks, i think just on january 29th, they struck the network in north waziristan, the debate now is whether they should push the drone attack into the south. the south. where the tough taliban go down into afghanistan. mullah omar. mullah omar. the debate inside the administration is how far to push this not pull it back. paul: and the pakistanis denounce the attacks and public and privately in the go ahead. i was in a meeting and foreign minister said we understand we re doing this, thank you for doing it and came out in the press conference and said i denounce admiral mullen. this is for domestic
filed, questioning the legal basis of the predator drone program. we re back with dan ettinger and matt comiskey and editorial page writer colin levy. the president has wrapped up this predator campaign above what the bush administration was doing. how well is it working? well, it s quite dramatic actually. last year we had 50 attacks which is more than the last three years in the bush administration, as you mentioned this month, last month there were more than a dozen attacks. i think it s been the one unherded success of president obama s war on terror. in pakistan we ve got kills, only this massoud. the. from before. the guy six months ago also killed by dron attacks and also used in yemen and killed 16 of the leaders of al-qaeda there. so it s been, it s amazing that we re debating this today. paul: and rather than just killing al-qaeda, now, with the
massouds, they re killing pakistan taliban. which means that the pakistanis are happy with that because we re killing the people who have been targeting their cities and their government? yeah, that s right. i mean, one of the attacks, i think just on january 29th, they struck the network in north waziristan, the debate now is whether they should push the drone attack into the south. the south. where the tough taliban go down into afghanistan. mullah omar. mullah omar. the debate inside the administration is how far to push this not pull it back. paul: and the pakistanis denounce the attacks and public and privately in the go ahead. i was in a meeting and foreign minister said we understand we re doing this, thank you for doing it and came out in the press conference and said i denounce admiral mullen. this is for domestic
filed, questioning the legal basis of the predator drone program. we re back with dan ettinger and matt comiskey and editorial page writer colin levy. the president has wrapped up this predator campaign above what the bush administration was doing. how well is it working? well, it s quite dramatic actually. last year we had 50 attacks which is more than the last three years in the bush administration, as you mentioned this month, last month there were more than a dozen attacks. i think it s been the one unherded success of president obama s war on terror. in pakistan we ve got kills, only this massoud. the. from before. the guy six months ago also killed by dron attacks and also used in yemen and killed 16 of the leaders of al-qaeda there. so it s been, it s amazing that we re debating this today. paul: and rather than just killing al-qaeda, now, with the