Posted on 07/12/2011 2:00:05 PM PDT by CharlyFord
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan could pull back troops fighting Islamist militants near the Afghan border if the United States cuts off aid, the defense minister said on Tuesday in an interview with Pakistani media.
The United States Monday said it would hold back $800 million -- a third of nearly $2 billion in security aid to Pakistan -- in a show of displeasure over Pakistan's removal of U.S. military trainers, limits on visas for U.S. personnel and other bilateral irritants.
"If at all things become difficult, we will just get all our forces back," Defense Minister Ahmed Mukhtar said in an interview with the Express 24/7 television to be aired later on Tuesday.
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Maybe the Paki’s can use those troops on our border with Mexico.
But really, How come it seems we always pick the wrong horse?
Since when has Pakistan even cared about the Pak-Afghan border?
We give pakistan money out of fear the government will collapse and their nukes will be on the loose.
All true enough. The only other rout for supplies would be through Georgia or some other former Soviet Republic, and that would require some major concession to Russia, which would yield uncertain returns to put it mildly. This is why Dubya didn’t want to increase troop levels there in the first place; to keep the supply requirements low. But if Pashtun raiders want to disrupt supply lines along the Khyber Pass, they’ll do it with or without Pakistani soldiers on the border, as they have in the past.
What of sabotage within Pakistan, like the very convenient blowing up of gasoline tankers within Pakistan last year?
The Pakistanis hate Americans. They squeezed you for all you were worth during Charlie Wilson’s war then you abandoned them. 9/11 provided them another opportunity to extort you - which they are doing.
It is not in Pakistan’s interest for the Taliban to be defeated, cause as long as the Taliban remains in Afghanistan, America has a reason to remain there. And as long as America remains there you have to bankroll their military build up against India, their atomic program and the terrorist activities they fund in Kashmir.
Were Nixon and Kissinger stupid to favour Pakistan over India? I don’t know, but the end result is that India will not fully trust the US for at least two generations and Pakistan will never be a reliable ally.
Hundred percent. Israel has a natural ally in India. We both face the same psychotic cut-throat adversaries, and we both must deal with the same equivocating “ally,” the US, that can’t understand why Muslim nations keep doing a number on it; maybe if the US screwed Israel or India or both a little harder?
That should have been a clear choice to even the most brain dead retard. The worst choices ever made have the most long term damaging consequences. Current Pak issue is the result of that disastrous choice made by Nixon and Kissinger. And then you make wrong choices one after another to fix the original mistake. In short that is the story of US-Pak-India right now.
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