With the US desperate ot come to some sort of agreement that would reopen the borders to occupied Afghanistan, officials in the Obama Administration are claiming that the White House offered to make some concessions in the ongoing drone war against the Pakistani tribal areas, but the offer was spurned by Pakistan’s government.
The offer, which was forwarded by Gen. David Petraeus in January, involved limits on the types of strikes, and a promise not to automatically attack random groups of armed men in North and South Waziristan. They also offered to provide “advanced notice” to the ISI about attacks.
ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha’s stance at the time was in keeping with the civilian government’s recent statements, that US strikes are no longer considered acceptable under any circumstances.
The reported offer of concessions is new, but it is in keeping with some of the previous reports, which say that President Obama ordered the strikes restarted despite Pakistani objections about it.
Pompous doughnut too busy bein a star an killing to do any thinking………………
When will the Pakistanis grow a pair and give Uncle Sam the kick in the nuts he deserves?
lol ain't going to happen anytime soon. Pakistanis look upto their Arab brethren, even if the Arabs look at them with nothing but contempt,and look at their own history with shame. Moreover the history they are taught is very distorted. Add to that the usual peace that prevails in Islamic societies and you have the recipe for, not intelligent brave people but fanatical buffoons.
thank you for being racsit towards pakistanis based on numerous unfounded claims. I doubt you k now any Pakistanis or pakistani culture which is very success oriented. Whats up with your "We are civilized, they are savages" tripe about Pakistani education being romanticized B.S. Please look to the way history is taught in your country and the jingoism and anti scientific (creationist) tripe it breeds. Pakistan was founded as a secular country with an Muslim identiy (similar to AMerica being a 'christian' country) by intellectuals, it is the only Muslim country to have won the Nobel Prize in the Sciences. The education system is similar to that in India and inherited from British colonialism. YOUR intervention in the region has done this, it has radicalized a generation that sees the govt as nothing but a western puppet, and instigated some conservatives to rise against the liberal elite and thus the current civil war- compounded by the ethnic differences. AT THE BEHEST of YOR government, the Pakistani army went into the North West and split the country. YOUR definitions of good guys and bad guys and support for the former has resulted in the mess. When you leave, tempers will cool down and without foreigners to blame- the extremists will get whats coming to them. Jamaat Islami has never won a majority and never will.
Nuclear Terrorism summit in South Korea — Iran and North Korea not invited
Nuclear terrorism being any individual or nation that dares to weaken the ability of the West to nuke terrorize the world into fearful submission, quite natural was it for the entire summit to be centered around North Korea putting another weather satellite into orbit.
For the Western nations have over 6,000 nukes loaded and ready to fire, and reverse logic has it that nuke terrorism is to cause the West irresistible temptation to repeat the bad history of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But of course this is the reverse definition of true terrorism, which is greed-driven vengeance that causes the helpless to act in righteous indignation.
— CORRECTION —
Terrorism
Vengeance caused by greed-driven Western plunder that causes the helpless to act in righteous indignation.
That border wont be open
upon the instruments of death, the sunlight brightly gleams.
Medvedev censures Romney for anti-Russia comment
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has blasted US Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney for saying Russia is the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe,” advising him to “use his head.”
“Regarding ideological clichés, every time this or that side uses phrases like “enemy number one,” this always alarms me, this smells of Hollywood and certain times (of the past),” Reuters quoted Medvedev as saying at the end of a nuclear security summit in South Korea on Tuesday.
“I would recommend all US presidential candidates … do two things. First, when phrasing their position one needs to use one’s head, one’s good reason, which would not do harm to a presidential candidate,” the Russian president added.
“Also, (one needs to) look at his watch: we are in 2012 and not the mid-1970s,” he went on to say.
Romney made the comments while criticizing President Barack Obama for his caught-on-tape remarks to Medvedev that he needed more “space” to negotiate on the issue of missile defense in Europe.
Obama made the remarks in a Monday meeting on the sidelines of the summit in Seoul.
“This is my last election,” Obama was heard telling the Russian president. “After my election, I have more flexibility.”
In an interview with CNN on Monday, Romney called Obama’s comments “alarming and troubling.”
“If he (Obama) is planning on doing more and suggests to Russia that he has things he’s willing to do with them, he’s not willing to tell the American people – this is to Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe,” Romney said in response to the conversation in Seoul on missile defense between the two presidents.
Moscow has long opposed US plans for a missile defense system in Europe, perceiving the shield as a threat to Russia’s national security.
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