{"id":1872,"date":"2008-11-21T19:57:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2008-11-21T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:57:32","slug":"security-theater-that-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/21\/security-theater-that-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Theater (That Matters)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan’s Army is practising shooting down unmanned drones<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, like the US military uses.\u00c2\u00a0 The Danger Room story notes:<\/p>\n

The U.S. and Pakistan supposedly have a “don’t ask, don’t tell<\/a>” agreement when it comes to killer drone strikes on militant camps inside the country: American officials stay mum about the attacks, and their counterparts in Islamabad only complain a little — while sneaking peeks at the drone surveillance feeds<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s hoping that that’s the case.\u00c2\u00a0 As I have said here – over and over again, I know – I don’t think there’s any role that the US can usefully play in the stabilising of Pakistan.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time, I don’t begrudge the US taking very narrowly targeted action in certain cases (e.g., 110% verified, high value, strategic targets taking advantage of Pakistan’s borders).\u00c2\u00a0 No matter what, however, I think it is essential that the US not be seen as meddling in Pakistan’s internal affairs (which was one of the many reasons I was disappointed with Obama on the subject of Pakistan during the campaign).\u00c2\u00a0 If it takes a bit of lying on everyone’s part, that’s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pakistan’s Army is practising shooting down unmanned drones.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, like the US military uses.\u00c2\u00a0 The Danger Room story notes: The U.S. and Pakistan supposedly have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” agreement when it comes to killer drone strikes on militant camps inside the country: American officials stay mum about the attacks, and their counterparts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}