Commander Obama

So Obama finally talks tough--to an ally. Granted, a shaky ally but one nonetheless. No chance of genocide there. Guess it's OK to invade then. Yahoo:

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."

(Hmm, isn't a scholar from the liberal Woodrow Wilson Center being held hostage in Iran? No comment Barack?)

Should we call Obama Cheney-overkill? After all, VP Cheney merely had to visit Musharaff and they arrested a top al-Qaeda ally.

HT and pix Drudge.

UPDATE: A new book on the Big O coming out in August by Trib reporter David Mendell Obama: From Promise to Power. Sweet comments:

Mendell also writes on a central premise of Obama's presidential candidacy: that he had the judgment to oppose authorizing the Iraq war and that his key rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, did not.

Obama decided to oppose the impending war "in part as a political calculation that he hoped would benefit him among Democrats," Mendell wrote.

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