Pakistani officials familiar with the situation say that a letter sent to the Obama Administration about last week’s attack on a pair of Pakistani military bases called for the US to offer both an apology for the attacks as well as punishing all those responsible.
So far exactly who is responsible isn’t clear, and if history is any indication NATO’s investigation will likely take quite some time and end will little clarity. Pakistani officials have insisted that General John Allen, the current head of the Afghan occupation, is ultimately among the responsible.
Punishment is unlikely to be in the offing, however, since the Obama Administration has also said that the president won’t offer any official apology for the killings. Even if they eventually back off and agree to apologize it would be virtually unprecedented for the US to punish top officials for attacking a foreign military base, no matter how big a mistake it was.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry insists that a simple apology isn’t enough. And while previous incidents have ended with the Zardari government backing down, the relationship between the US and Pakistan seems to have been damaged beyond the point that the issue is simply going to go away with time.
And so it should not.
Pakistan is entitled to an apology AND reparation from the murderers in NATO.
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And as history and Mr. Ditz point out, it is not likely to happen. There's this "American Exceptionalism" thing that dictates that apologizing and the associated "loss of face" that accompanies it is not going to happen.
Not only is it the loss of face. If the US starts punishing its assassins. they may even mutiny. This could be the worst outcome for the criminals' interests but the best for the world.
NATO has become so bold after they have invaded Libya by providing air logistic to the Libya rebellion. They can hardly wait to take action in Syria if not because of the opposition from Russia, Iran and China. Their disdain toward the Pakistan soldiers are building up because of the Taliban operating in that area. Maybe they try to stir up a war against Pakistan and invaded the Northwest tribal area once and for all before withdrawal from Afghanistan. History tell us that in the long term, all foreigner countries will not be ever to occupy Afghanistan; unless NATO and US can kill all the Afghan.
I think the US expected Pakistan to react so NATO could use this as a justification to wage full war on the Pakistanis and above all take over their nuclear weapons.