“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
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Pakistan-On withdrawal of US from Afghanistan.
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Contract mercenaries to fight AlQueda.
Jihadis are an unconventional menace.There is nothing wrong in adopting any tactic to weed them out.If you want Good to prevail, sometimes it is necessary to initiate action that may not stand moral scrutiny.Your reaction depends on the adversary.The concept of means justifying ends is perfectly valid here.
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