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US Presidential hopeful Barrack Obama has termed the cross-border raids by the US forces into Pakistan as a small step in the right direction. 

Obama supported the raids but described them as “baby steps” by the Bush’s administration.

“The Bush administration has come to that point of view. That’s the kind of policy we have to pursue and continue …This is a baby step, but it’s a baby step in the right direction and something that John McCain hasn’t been willing to acknowledge,” Susan Rice, the top foreign policy adviser to Senator Obama, said.

“President Bush and the administration, indeed, are doing what Senator Obama said we must, well over a year ago. If we have actionable intelligence about a high-value terrorist target inside Pakistan and Pakistan is unwilling or unable to take that target out, such as Osama bin Laden, Senator Obama’s view is we should act,” she added.

“Senator Obama has been saying for well over a year, in fact, has been saying frankly since before the invasion of Iraq that the central front in the war on terror is Afghanistan and Pakistan. And we need to invest there,” she noticed.

Experts say Bush is once again violating international law by invading yet another nation which has not attacked the US.

Rice said that President Bush and his administration were doing what Senator Obama believed in, saying invading Pakistan did not mean hurting the country’s sovereignty but should be viewed as an act of self-defense.

“Not to invade. Not to take over Pakistan’s sovereignty, but to take out that target as an act of self-defense,” Rice concluded.
The Obama camp statement comes after the Bush administration authorized raids against militants in Pakistan without prior approval from Islamabad.

Subsequently, the Pakistani Army were given orders to retaliate against any unilateral strike by the Afghanistan-based US troops inside the country and its Air force fighters carried out sorties in the tribal region for the first time after US missiles attacks killed dozens of civilians.

Earlier, some US senators said the congress must intervene legislatively and legally to prevent Bush from continuing down this dangerous path.

Pak jet fighters clashed US drones on Monday
Meanwhile, some US drones violated the Pakistani airspace on Monday but after facing Pak fighter jets’ fire, fled the area, according to local media reports.

The upsurge in strikes and irresponsible statements by US officials have alarmed the Pakistani military, which says it would hit back against any further US aggression inside the country.