2 U.S. Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama's Pakistan Policy

Washington Post by R. Jeffrey Smith, Candace Rondeauxm, Joby Warrick | Jan. 24, 2009 (News Report)

Two remote U.S. missile strikes that killed at least 20 people at suspected terrorist hideouts in northwestern Pakistan yesterday offered the first tangible sign of President Obama's commitment to sustained military pressure on the terrorist groups there, even though Pakistanis broadly oppose such unilateral U.S. actions. Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Jan. 24, 2009

This is the level of analysis we need to see right now on the Obama Administration's first foreign policy and military moves. While this is light on primary sources, the Post connected other recent events and comments from appropriate officials to help us deduce what the two missile strikes say about Obama's approach to terrorism in Pakistan and his relations with Islamabad.

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