How Dare Obama Suggest Stated US Policy!

I had exactly the same reaction as Matt Yglesias about John McCain's speech tonight. He opened up a couple new lines of attack (we need to get rid of the unemployment system?), and one of them was accusing McCain of "threatening to bomb our ally Pakistan." Um, does McCain understand that American law permits strikes of this type? And does he get the papers?

In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster of mud-brick buildings a few miles from the town center.

The missiles killed Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander and a man who had repeatedly eluded the CIA's dragnet. It was the first successful strike against al-Qaeda's core leadership in two years, and it involved, U.S. officials say, an unusual degree of autonomy by the CIA inside Pakistan.

Having requested the Pakistani government's official permission for such strikes on previous occasions, only to be put off or turned down, this time the U.S. spy agency did not seek approval. The government of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was notified only as the operation was underway, according to the officials, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities.

Officials say the incident was a model of how Washington often scores its rare victories these days in the fight against al-Qaeda inside Pakistan's national borders: It acts with assistance from well-paid sympathizers inside the country, but without getting the government's formal permission beforehand.

Clearly, John McCain is deeply unserious about the war on terror and Barack Obama is. If it were up to McCain, the #3 in Al Qaeda would still be alive. He wants us all to die.

(Hopefully David Axelrod picks this up and runs with it.)

...also, if it was up to John McCain and we waved the white flag of surrender in Serbia, those Kosovars wouldn't be celebrating their independence in the streets today.