Obama expresses regret for Afghan civilian deaths

[laststeamtrain]

Source: AP

Obama expresses regret for Afghan civilian deaths
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer 45 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Flanked by the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama expressed deep U.S. regret Wednesday for civilian casualties in a deadly incident this week in western Afghanistan, promising "every effort" to avoid recurrences in the war against a rising Taliban insurgency. Obama had a more upbeat and determined tone as he lauded "unprecedented cooperation" between the two neighbors in fighting Taliban and other extremist threats.

But he cautioned that success will not come quickly.

"Along the border, where insurgents often move freely, we must work together with a renewed sense of partnership to share intelligence and to coordinate our efforts to isolate, target, and take out our common enemy," Obama said after a day of meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.

Obama met separately with Karzai and Zardari, followed by a three-way session that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton portrayed as an embodiment of a central tenet of the administration's new Afghan war strategy — that Pakistan and Afghanistan are linked problems.

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What is "deep U.S. regret"?

Is it like when you see "cheese food" on a package & you know it isn't really cheese?

[jody]

1. How much "deep U.S. regret" over U.S. murdering innocent civilians does it take to move this into

the war-crime category for which I and other Democrats criticized the last Commanded in Chief, George W. Bush?

[stillcool]

5. If you're looking to end American Imperialism...

you need more than a new President. We've been doing this long before Bush, and will most likely be doing it long after Obama. Perhaps our country will completely collapse and our military will be sold off to the Carlyle Group. Maybe it already has?

[ohio2007]

6. Maybe the media will run a different stroy tomorrow on how the Taliban faked an airstrike with

hand grenades.

They have a lot of hand grenades but to make a few look like a bomb crater launched from a drone?


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30605155#30605155

This story needs a 48 hr rule.
Taliban want to win political points when both thier Afghan and Pakistan enemies are currently visiting in the house of Obama

[Ed76638]

2. It's called "regret" because

You're never supposed to say "you're sorry"

[MrSlayer]

3. What's else could he say?

That's what happens in war. It's unfortunate but it's just way it is.

[laststeamtrain]

4. Imperial aggression has always reminded me of Elvis...

because that's the way it is.

[MrSlayer]

7. Yes, it's an ugly business.

[balantz]

8. Our commander in chief regrets killing and maiming so many innocent lives

of an already impoverished and war weary people as he hunts for the rest of those box-cutter weilding beginner pilots who miraculously get airplanes past the world's mightiest airforce and completely destroy a complex of concrete and steel buildings from fire (the first time in history to happen) in a matter of hours and also land one in the Pentagon, the most heavily guarded fortress in the world.

Now fire up those heroic robot drones troops! We've got an empire to push!

[never cry wolf]

9. I sense a certain

Sarcastic attitude, I keep an opn mind, or I try to... I think Obama is fighting the system as best he can... BIG change will not happen quickly, it comes in pieces, he is working on it...