“In an interview at the Journal’s offices this week in New York, Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi minced no words about the impact of a U.S. withdrawal before the Taliban is defeated. “This will be disastrous,” he said. “You will lose credibility. . . . Who is going to trust you again?” As for Washington’s latest public bout of ambivalence about the war, he added that “the fact that this is being debated—whether to stay or not stay—what sort of signal is that sending?”
-WSJ 1/10/09
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574443352072071822.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
Comment:
Excellent.Pakistan ,on the one hand says not to interfere in Pakistan’s affairs,but would like US to do so in Afghanistan..Pakistan will be affected if US withdraws from Afghanistan?It should be concerned more with home grown terrorists.Again Pakistan created Taliban and Al Qaeda indirectly with US through CIA,It is reaping the consequences.If you can not manage your country,even God can not help yo
Pakistan-On withdrawal of US from Afghanistan.
Comments
3 responses to “Pakistan-On withdrawal of US from Afghanistan.”
-
I usually dont post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. Kind regards from france
-
Essentially both of us seem to be saying the same thing.
Double talk notwithstanding,Reality is Pakistan and US , both of them are catching each other like holding Tiger’s tail.None want to retain the other nor leave the other. More of this US double talk you may find in my blog under US,Afghanistan,Pakistan,International relations.
Thank you for posting the comment. I welcome comments, especially if the differ from my views. -
The author is vaive and needs to understand that there is always a big gap between what you say and what you do in geopolitics. The US is the best example of that, for example it preaches the virtues of nuclear non proliferation, while in reality the high officials of the State Department during the Reagan era actually gagged the whistle blowers, in order to facilitate Pakistani network of nuke tech. theft. One may argue, what is the gain for the US in doing that. Well, the US is primarily a war-industrial economy and they have everything to gain by making this world a more dangerous place.
Here too the Pak Foreign Minister is saying something that the world would like to hear, but in reality the Pak Army and the ISI is waiting for the US to leave, in order to again seek strategic depth in Afghanistan.
Leave a Reply