{"id":6330,"date":"2009-10-30T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2009-10-30T06:30:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T14:30:22","slug":"bergens-albright-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/bergens-albright-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergen&#8217;s Albright Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fair.org\/index.php?page=1084\">very hard choice<\/a>, but Peter Bergen has given\u00c2\u00a0our\u00c2\u00a0killing by remote control\u00c2\u00a0a grudging thumbs up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/OPINION\/10\/29\/bergen.drone.war\/index.html?section=cnn_latest\">(Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants &#8212; and civilians<\/a>, CNN, Oct. 29, 2009).\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nNot only do the\u00c2\u00a0drone attacks &#8220;consistently&#8221; kill\u00c2\u00a0civilians,\u00c2\u00a0they also prompt blowback, but as that blowback has yet to reach U.S. shores, well,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wire.antiwar.com\/2009\/10\/28\/major-militant-attacks-in-pakistan-in-october-2\/\">the price in Pakistani blood<\/a>&#8211;he thinks\u00c2\u00a0the price is worth it.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nUnder\u00c2\u00a0Obama, we\u00c2\u00a0tried to get\u00c2\u00a0Baitullah Mehsud\u00c2\u00a0fifteen times &#8220;but he still didn&#8217;t see it coming.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, killing the Pakistani Taliban&#8217;s leader\u00c2\u00a0(and &#8220;one of his wives and her father&#8221;) in August was the landmark success,\u00c2\u00a0ding dong, the witch is\u00c2\u00a0dead, never mind the concerns expressed when the new leader surfaced that he was &#8220;far more dangerous and unpredictable&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/daily_detail.asp?id=203687\">Hakimullah behind current wave of terror<\/a>, The News, Oct. 17, 2009).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not logical I realize, but I expected better from Bergen given that\u00c2\u00a0he had recognized\u00c2\u00a0the 9\/11 attacks as blowback (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterbergen.com\/articles\/details.aspx?id=25\">Prophet of Evil<\/a>, Washington Post, Nov. 11, 2001).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a very hard choice, but Peter Bergen has given\u00c2\u00a0our\u00c2\u00a0killing by remote control\u00c2\u00a0a grudging thumbs up (Pakistan drone war takes a toll on militants &#8212; and civilians, CNN, Oct. 29, 2009).\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Not only do the\u00c2\u00a0drone attacks &#8220;consistently&#8221; kill\u00c2\u00a0civilians,\u00c2\u00a0they also prompt blowback, but as that blowback has yet to reach U.S. shores, well,\u00c2\u00a0the price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6337,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions\/6337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}