"I believe that America has to exercise all options in order to stop
the terrorists who are hellbent on destroying America and our allies,"
she said after several questions on the topic. "We have got to have
all options out there on the table."
That response put her in line with a view expressed by Sen. Barack
Obama, now the Democratic presidential nominee, in August 2007, when
he stirred controversy by saying that if he were elected president, he
would be willing to attack inside Pakistan with or without approval
from the Pakistani government. "If we have actionable intelligence
about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won't act,
we will," Obama said. At the time, McCain called Obama's comments
"naive."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews
As an aside:
"President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first
time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground
assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani
government, according to senior American officials."
"The classified orders signal a watershed for the Bush administration
after nearly seven years of trying to work with Pakistan to combat the
Taliban and Al Qaeda, and after months of high-level stalemate about
how to challenge the militants’ increasingly secure base in Pakistan’s
tribal areas."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/wa...policy.html?hp
So, 2pid, you're curiously silent on this point. It seems that Obama
was quite a visionary. That's the mark of a great leader.