Obama’s Pakistan Policy | PRI’s The World

Flikr photo by Michael Foley used under a Creative Commons license.  Karin von Hippel was on PRI’s The World yesterday to discuss the long-term impact of the predator drone strikes in Pakistan.  According to von Hippel, what is needed is a fundamental realignment of U.S. policy towards Pakistan:

I am not a fan of drone attacks on their own, and you don’t need them if you have much better intelligence and better security on the ground.  It is really rare a drone attack will not kill civilians and anytime you kill civilians you are going to increase animosity against the U.S. and going to potentially cause more young men to want to join these different militia groups and fight the U.S.  So, in the long term, it is probably counter-productive.