While the French may love Barack Obama, Pakistan isn’t really loving the guy that’s talked about attacking them. The man refuses to talk about taking out Iran’s nuke program, but is just giddy about launching attacks within Pakistan without its permission.

Dozens of students interviewed at two top universities in this country’s second-largest city, a cultural melting pot known for its liberal leanings, rejected Mr. Obama as “too aggressive,” “irresponsible” and an “enemy of Muslims” whose stated policy toward insurgency-plagued areas would make a bad situation worse.

The anti-Obama sentiment stems from assertions on the campaign trail that the senator from Illinois, if elected president, would authorize U.S. forces to enter Pakistani territory to hunt down Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

PHOTOGRAHS BY JASON MOTLAGH/THE WASHINGTON TIMES An Islamic student group at the University of the Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan, made anti-American posters showing a map of Pakistan clutched by hairy, red-fanged claws wrapped in the American flag.

That the Democratic nominee is an overwhelming favorite abroad is not lost on the students, nor is the Muslim faith of his grandfather nor his Arabic middle name, Hussein.

But that is not enough to overcome concerns that an Obama administration would target and further destabilize Pakistan.

“The only country he’s talking about bombing today is us,” said Sher Afghen Malik, a political science major at the University of the Punjab, to the approving nods of classmates. “How could we possibly support him?”

Imagine that. Via HAH.