We Have Time

American airstrikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November, prompting Islamabad to block US and NATO supply lines en route to its neighbour to the north running through its territory.

The supply lines through Pakistan are considered vital to the planned withdrawal of most foreign combat troops from Afghanistan before the end of 2014.

Pakistan has demanded an apology over the raid and an end to drone strikes as a precursor to reopening the supply lines.

  alJazeera

Yeah? How's this for an apology....

The third US drone strike in as many days in Pakistan has raised the three-day death toll in the aerial attacks to at least 27, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

Monday's strike in the Hesokhel village of North Waziristan's tribal areas, was said to have targeted a hideout for fighters, officials said.

The latest strike, which officials said had killed 15 people, was the seventh in a span of less than two weeks.

The attack on Monday morning came just after a strike on Sunday that killed 10 suspected fighters. Two Pakistani intelligence officials say in that attack, four missiles were fired at targets in the village of Mana Raghzai in South Waziristan near the border with neighbouring Afghanistan.

And I'm sure that all the dead are evil people who want to attack us. In fact, since Obama is defining anyone in a kill zone who is a male of “fighting age” to be a combatant, there's no doubt. Unless of course, some of the dead are women and toddlers. But how could that happen? Firing on a village. With four missiles.

Has anybody in our government yet said we are at war with Pakistan?

Al Jazeera's Imtiaz Tyab, reporting from Islamabad, said the recent spate of attacks have led to a "pretty toxic [relationship] right now between Islamabad and Washington".

That tension, said our correspondent, has also spilled out from the capital and onto the streets. "Many people here in Pakistan are frankly tired of the United States' presence in the region, and are calling for Islamabad to sever ties with the US," he said.

”Tired of our presence.”

Our correspondent said the recent strikes, [...] has been seen as the US "showing with a lot of deadly force, their frustration with Pakistan". This, has pushed "any kind of agreement further than ever", he added.

So, we want to pull out of Afghanistan in 2014? They think they're "tired of" us now.  Two more years of drone attacks, and I think Pakistan will be willing to negotiate.  We have time.

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