This is one of those times I have to remind myself that all the world’s ills aren’t going to be solved overnight by the arrival of President Obama. A pair of rockets wriggled their way into Pakistan today, hitting a house and killing a few people. Unsurprisingly, “officials” are claiming the deaths were militants.
Now, tell me I’m not alone here:
There have been more than 20 such attacks carried out from drones on targets in north-western Pakistan in recent months, sparking protests from Pakistan’s government against US policy in the region.
The United States seems to have this attitude of “deal with it” when it comes to what we’re doing in other countries. If China was helping fight off terrorists in Canada and a score of their rockets came flying across the border to hit houses in Minnesota and New York, what do you think the reaction would be? Would it be this mild little “hey, respect our sovereignty” kind of reponse? Or would there be hell to pay for killing our citizens in our borders?
American exceptionalism was borne of our leaders using our strength only for good. When the United States reserved its power for when the world needed us and sought to prove we had the moral high ground in all matters, the world came to see us as the city on the hill. Obama’s got an uphill battle to get that back.
