The nation’s top military official said Thursday that Pakistan’s spy agency played a direct role in supporting the insurgents who carried out the deadly attack on the American Embassy in Kabul last week. It was the most serious charge that the United States has leveled against Pakistan in the decade that America has been at war in Afghanistan.
In comments that were the first to directly link the spy agency, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, with an assault on the United States, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went further than any other American official in blaming the ISI for undermining the American effort in Afghanistan. His remarks were certain to further fray America’s shaky relationship with Pakistan, a nominal ally.
We should sever all ties with Pakistan. They sheltered Osama bin
Laden for years, and now appear to be strongly linked to the attack
on the American Embassy.
Here’s another “gem” which needs to be given more publicity :
Aimal Qazi (also spelled Kasi) was the Pakistani national who
cold-bloodedly murdered 2 CIA employees and wounded another
3 in Virginia in 1993. Here’s the Wikipedia article …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimal_Qazi
He fled the U.S., but was brought back, tried, found guilty, and
executed. His burial in Pakistan was attended by many who
were closely linked with the Pakistani government and military.
This excerpt from the Wikipedia article is most interesting :
Kasi is memorialized through a mosque built in his name as
Shaheed Aimal Kasi masjid (Martyr Aimal Kasi mosque) in the port
city of Ormara in Kasi’s home province of Balochistan in Pakistan.
Why would they erect a mosque to the memory of a murderer ?
Did the U.S. government ever protest this sanctification of a
bloody outrage ?
When will the thick-headed officials in Washington realize that
the Pakistani government and military are not our friends ?
The dunderheads in D.C. congratulate themselves on a “nuanced
approach” in dealing with Pakistan. There is a steadfast refusal to
acknowledge that there exist governments which bear a great
deal of ill will toward the American government and people. One is
left with the feeling that the Neville Chamberlain fan club is alive
and thriving in the U.S. State Department. What’s worse – paying
our federal officials to continue a wrong-headed engagement with
Pakistan, OR paying the Pakistani government and military hundreds
of millions of dollars a year to be our “friends” ? The whole thing
stinks.
Agree, Ichabod. They are playing us for useful idiots.
I think our policy should be that nations with sharia law receive no aid. This would serve as a disincentive to adopt sharia, if a nation were considering it.
If the Arabs stop selling us oil, we start drilling more of our own oil, building more windmills, etc.
The question is, “Who actually ‘runs’ Pakistan?”
Are Pakistan’s national executive and its national legislative body merely figureheads for cabals that exercise ‘sub rosa’ rule over Pakistan?
If so what are their goals/priorities if they simultaneously provide ‘access’ for US forces to conduct operations against Taliban/Al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan and also provide support and encouragement to Taliban-like/Al Qaeda forces in both Afghanistan and Pakistan?
I can remember back in the 1970s when, during a brief training period, I provided training to a small contingent from the Pakistani Navy that included two commissioned officers.
One of the officers was very British in culture and very affable and very comfortable with American ‘ways.’ The other officer was obviously very Muslim and very uptight about American ‘ways.’
Retrospectively, it makes me wonder whether this dichotomy is much larger and extends throughout the Pakistani military and the Pakistani intelligence services.