Islamabad's generals have been sponsoring the deaths of Americans for years, and yet Obama does nothing. Why?
For a man who attained the presidency by invoking Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, Obama has rarely displayed any compunction in retreating from battle with men who, given the opportunity, would have lynched King and Gandhi...
In the Pakistani view of Afghanistan, any government in Kabul must be pro-Pakistan. This should hardly seem worth worrying about -- except that "pro-Pakistan," in the context of Afghanistan, means anti-India, anti-America, and, more troublingly, anti-Afghan. Bluntly, it means a Pakistani colony of the pre-2001 variety that hosted bin Laden, not a sovereign state with independent policymaking prerogatives.
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NATO Forces Lured Into Raid On Paki Border Post
According to the U.S. military records, the joint U.S. and Afghan patrol requested backup after being hit by mortar and small arms fire by Taliban militants.
Before responding, the joint U.S.-Afghan patrol first checked with the Pakistani army, which reported it had no troops in the area, the military account said.
Some two hours later, still hunting the insurgents — who had by then apparently fled in the direction of Pakistani border posts — the U.S. commander spotted what he thought was a militant encampment, with heavy weapons mounted on tripods.
The joint patrol called for the airstrikes at around 2:21 a.m. Pakistani time, not realizing the encampment was apparently the Pakistani border post.
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The Americans were very conveniently complicit in a lot of games that Pakistan played over many decades. Needless to say they were thick as thieves when it came to arming Pakistan and fuelling their obsession against India.
It is only now, since the sword they hoped to use to their own ends, is cutting in to them, they seem to realize that the Pakistanis are dishing them some of their own medicine.
Do they merit any pity? None.
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