We're policing the world.

[Onlooker]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060115/ts_nm/security_pakistan_zawahri_dc

A dinner invitation to al Qaeda's second-in-command triggered a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan's tribal region but Ayman al-Zawahri failed to show up, Pakistani intelligence officials said on Sunday.
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Pakistan condemned Friday's strike, which killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and summoned U.S. ambassador Ryan Crocker to protest. Thousands of local tribesmen also rallied near the scene, chanting anti-American slogans.

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We can't go around killing innocent people, especially since they are hearing all sorts of terrible things about the United States every day. We probably created more terrorists than we killed, and that's what we've been doing from the start.

The more I think about the war on terrorism, it's about us policing the world. It has no end. This is Bush I's vision.

[RC]

1. It will reach a point where we will be told to leave our military bases

in other countries, to get out. There will not be the normal 10 years to work on it. It will be days or weeks. The rest of the world is getting fed up with the murderous bully with the self appointed task of policing the world. The United States is acting like the rogue cop/shake down artist.
The killing must stop or one day the rest of the world will decide the killer must die!

[HereSince1628]

2. It shows Pakistan is a vassal state to the US.

You think the US, UK, Russia or China would limit their response to a whimper of diplomatic complaint if their territory was attacked by a UAV?

[Sal Minella]

3. And the corollary to this is, we're exporting so much democracy

that we don't have any left at home. /sarcasm.