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2006-04-08 India-Pakistan

Scheuer sez not to push Pakistan too far

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-08 02:01|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Sheurer doesn't like the way we are handling India and Pakistan, then I most certainly do.

Posted by Jaick Elmith7223 2006-04-08 04:06|| 2006-04-08 04:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I think we have a fine balancing act in our relations with Pakistan. The Pakistanis have done more recently than most in the US know or care to acknowledge. In the end, however, we will not be able to achieve or goals in the region without the support of Pakistan.

Posted by H8_UBL 2006-04-08 08:41|| 2006-04-08 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Homeric venality ?

Where the hell did you get this guy?

Posted by Clutle Floluling8554 2006-04-08 10:45|| 2006-04-08 10:45|| Front Page Top

#4 On the other hand beeing too good buds with Perv could be the kiss of death in the eyes of the ISI. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

And Pakistan needs to take a kinetic enema before the GWOT is over.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-04-08 10:56|| 2006-04-08 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 When President Ayub Khan visited Washington around 40 years ago, to meet the American president from Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the latter told him: We give India food or anything else we want. Our India policy is our business. Ayub Khan described the treatment meted to him by President Johnson: I had barely sat down when President Johnson started speaking. He didnt even address me as President, and thus spoke: Go and patch up with India. I said: Please listen to me... He stopped me right in the middle of the sentence and retorted: I have told you, go and patch up with India or shut up. Ayub Khan hadnt revealed this incident to his cabinet, but only to the Working Committee (Munir Ahmed Munir. 1985. Aatish Fishan Publications, pg337).

Posted by john 2006-04-08 12:02|| 2006-04-08 12:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm beginning to see why he's "former head".

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-08 12:13|| 2006-04-08 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Three cheers for LBJ sahib.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-04-08 12:14|| 2006-04-08 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 If they had listened to LBJ, Pak would not be in the hole it is in now...

Posted by john 2006-04-08 12:24|| 2006-04-08 12:24|| Front Page Top

#9 If Pakistan's heroic efforts have gone largely unhearlded, they must be some absolutely incredible undercover enterprises. That said, since the ISI does all the undercover work, it sort of brings us back to square one, since the ISI cannot be trusted with even so much as a ball point pen.

Our alliance with Pakistan compares well with attempting to use a highly toxic poison. It is just as easy to harm oneself as to kill your opponent when using such fatal measures. This has been the exact case with Pakistan. Any actual successes enjoyed at their behest have been accompanied by so many compromises and outright betrayals that little headway is the most likely result.

When you add to this meager balance sheet the fact that Pakistan continues to churn out countless thousands of potential taleban and jihadis on a daily basis, the degree of betrayal assumes true proportion.

Pakistan must eventually experience regime change and forever be steered away from the theocratic cesspool it has always been since its very inception.

Posted by Zenster 2006-04-08 13:39|| 2006-04-08 13:39|| Front Page Top

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