According to Pakistan’s Foreign Office, officials pressed Vice President Joe Biden on the growing US designs on the region, cautioning that the Pakistani government would not tolerate a new “great game” across Central Asia.
The term “great game” refers to the 19th century conflict between British and Russian forces for control over the area from Persia to the British Raj. Mentions of a new modern era “great game” generally refer to vying for resources in the region as opposed to military occupations like the one the US is currently in the midst of in Afghanistan, as no one other than NATO appears to have serious designs on such military endeavors.
But Biden was said to have responded favorably to the warning, reassuring officials that despite threats to the contrary the US had no intention of launching a ground invasion. Likewise Biden assured them that the US did not want to break the nation up.
Pakistani officials appear to be seriously concerned in recent days about the prospect of such an invasion of their tribal areas, as only yesterday Ambassador Haqqani was trying to reassure officials that there was “no need” for such a US invasion.
yeah well… why are the Pakistanis talking to Biden… he doesn't count..
Didn't Zbiegnew Bryzynski also refer to it as the Grand Chessboard?
I'm afraid BushCo©™ and friends went for broke and acted upon the PNAC white papers as soon as they could after 911.
I can only think of the US as King Katschei who is condemned to dance himself to death in Stravinsky's Firebird Suite.
We will keep dancing…….and we will exhaust ourselves into bankruptcy like the Soviets did.
So Biden gave his assurances that there would be no ground invasion of Pakistan. I wonder did he put it in writing. I wonder was it witnessed.
Did Biden mean there would be no invasion that day, or that week, or that month? Americans are tricky, you see. The world is littered with their promises. They would fill a library. They use snake oil on everything.
"We'll leave as soon as we put things right," they say with a straight face. They're still in Japan and Germany and the war finished in 1945.
Yeah, Joe. Thanks for the assurances.
We're not convinced!
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He's probably gonna pull a Daddy Bush and say "read my lips: no new invasion" after the fact.
Thee will be no change in american mind set. They are biast and damm care the allies like Pakistan and i think be good for Pakistan then we will be free of traitors from ppp.
I think it will be in the interest of pakistan to let americans come to FATA and leave them alone thenm they will see to butschered. If Pakistani armee not support US and NATO they will be no where.
West is forcing pakistan towards radical policies as the hatred is on the top because of innocent killings and the suicide bombers financed and trianed by CIA.
You are aware that the US is paying Pakistan to allow them to go in an murder their citizens in their own homes? The Pakistani government is as guilty as the US on this one.
Perhaps only a help operation will be staged? You just invent new words and no one (in American administrations and politics at least) can prove you wrong.
Isn't it a little enlightening, that thousands of words are deemed necessary just to USE a free piece of software, whlie just a few words spoken by officials are meant to be enough for everybody? And of course they are right adding the self-invented fact, that they themselves define who has the right to understand the messages.
The US breaks up all other countries into smaller and smaller units because this gives us more power. On the other hand, the US itself is on the verge of tearing itself apart, too.
Pakistan does not wish to play with habitual cheaters and sulky losers.
So, what exactly is the Pakistani government gonna do? Stop taking US bribes – to the tune of billions of US tax payer dollars in order to allow the US to go in and murder its citizens in their own homes? I'd love to see them do something about it.
I hope they (American Gung Ho) invade S.W Pakistan. This will make it easy for our brothers to hunt them down after they stretch very thin. I feel sorry for the smaller brass because they are brain washed to think they are liberating Washington D.C from the invading Muslim terrrorist. Math+History+Geography= Knowledge. Unfortunately American lack all the above mentioned, therefor, they have been lead into the slaughter house by their own hommies.
Lead is a metal. The word you're looking for is led.
I really hope the Pakistanis know that Biden's word is worth basically nothing. Unless he's prepared to draw up a treaty document defining exactly what he means and signs it in front of the General Assembly of the United Nations, somehow I don't think his words are going to count for much. Not even then, really.
All I can say, Pakistan, is stock up on food and water and ammo- you'll be needing all of it, and sooner than later.