Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen held a news conference today related to Pakistan. Though the order of the day was primarily making accusations about the Pakistani government (which Gates conceded were “pure supposition on our part”), the issue inevitably turned to the two top US defense officials triumphantly cheering the bin Laden raid and mocking Pakistan’s inability to do anything about it.
“If I were in Pakistani shoes, I would say I’ve already paid a price. I’ve been humiliated. I’ve been shown that the Americans can come in here and do this with impunity,” Gates declared when asked about the prospect of punishing Pakistan for the discovery of bin Laden.
Mullen later elaborated on this point, telling reporters that the US raid was a “humbling experience” for Pakistan’s normally proud military and that “their image has been tarnished” by the US raid.
The declarations about the ability of the US to attack Pakistani soil “with impunity” will likely be regarded particularly gravely within Pakistan, coming as they do just one day after US helicopters launched another cross-border raid and attacked a Pakistani military site, wounding two Pakistani soldiers.
Tensions between the US and Pakistan have soared in the wake of the bin Laden raid, not so much because of its unilateral nature but because White House officials have insisted it sets a precedent for other cross-border US raids. The comments, as well as the US attacks since the raid, have many Pakistani officials voicing public concerns that the US believes, as Gates and Mullen apparently do, that they can attack Pakistani territory whenever they please and will face no ramifications beyond the occasional “formal complaint” from the virtually powerless civilian government.
Nothing to be proud about here. Rubbing peoples noses into it just makes them hate you more. Don't turn your back gents.
Obviously, that's the point. The US needs all the enemies it can get to justify it's bloated military empire.
Yes Mr.Mule and Gates Co.you both are right.Pakistani public has yet to decide how to respond to this so called Back STABBING humiliation.We as Pakistani Public were never agreed to the fact that USA is anybodies friend and with Pakistan it has proven it times and again.
So go on dudes keep humiliating Pakistan, there is for sure down the road somewhere price laying to piad for it.USA has been just puppeting the corrupts,not the Public.
This is one way to Pakistani government.., you want it or not we are in your country deal with it. That is the question if Pakistani government is willing to deal with it or not.., here what is the Pakistanis alternative.., would they turn around and ask for Russian to come in and help them or Indian, Iranian or China.., in the other hand what US is saying is that they are there.., so Pakistan might as well let them in where they can establish a military base in Southern Pakistan protecting the Persian Gulf entry to the Gulf .., according to the plan that is the plan for US and with EU/s helping hand establishing another NATO base around Persian Gulf.., so the Libya war is part of that plan for NATO coming from Northern Africa to East Africa establishing military bases in one or more of African horn countries protecting the Saudis from Red Sea. Here using the Muslims brotherhood and its affiliated terrorist groups.., due to the Iranians influence in the region.., is the only source that would help out the plan .., So Hillary Clinton and Obama.., as Bill Clinton and madeline Albright in Balkan war.., once again using Sunni Muslims where they can achieve what Paul Wolfowitz the Zionists plan is…, anything and everything that is in away of US interests.., including socialism even if is Libyan or Syrian socialism.
I can't believe that they could be so stupid as to be unaware of the deeep anger this is likely to generate in Pakistan. I can only conclude that they do know and are seeking to provoke a response which can then be used to "justify" the invasion and conquest of Pakistan. Then on to Iran and maybe even China,
Of course, that is sheer lunacy. But those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
It is like a grown-up gangster beating a little kid and then bragging about it. Shame on both of them. They know Pakistan cannot respond as the country has no way to face those B52s under their control.
Third Reich was also exultant in 1938, 2011 is Fourth Reich's 1938.
I guess some of those higher-ups Pakistani politicians have already US
passports in their save deposit boxes and some account with bank of America
or in Switzerland. Like with other politicians here in Europe they are mentally much closer
to other corrupt politicians than their own people.
W9
Israel celebrates ignoring borders and thanks to US power, does this with total impunity so of course, our Zionists in the Pentagon think it is hilarious, violating Pakistan's sovereignty so we can kill, too!
The Chinese wish to thank us for handing over Pakistan to them. They will cheerfully kick us out of there in due time.
Gloat all you want. Your own country is turning into a garbage can.
Wouldn't it be a hoot if Pakistan presented absolute proof that the whole OBL story is bullshit. Who would be humiliated then?
They don't have the balls.
Right on dissenter.
When will the Pakistani people grow tired of their political leaders, who are allowing a foreign empire to violate their sovereignty and kill them in raids? Who would tolerate such a government for very long?
The same could be said for us. We sit around with our thumbs in our butts and pretend everything is fine.
This is like blaming the victim. Can Pakistan really fight the lone superpower? Those who think it is merely a matter of money don't really know the 'Empire'. If Pakistan ever tries to restore its sovereignty you will see all sorts of Pakistan AlQaida link propaganda in our media. And propaganda about how that country is an existential threat to our liberty and freedom. If they can use one bogeyman as an excuse to invade two countries how much more frenzy and war-support they can generate by painting a whole country as a threat.
Mission accomplished. The psychopaths are telling themselves exactly what they want to hear.
As Bismarck well understood, it never pays to humiliate another country needlessly– that's part of the reason he was so successful for so long in the foreign affairs of 19th cent. Europe. For all the raw military power and technology Gates and Mullen control, they have been notable failures in the one area Bismarck excelled at– controlling events. That's what it is all about, controlling events. That was the reason the United States lost in Vietnam– it had an unparalleled ability to destroy things, but it just couldn't control the flow or direction of events on the ground. Compounding the problem is the Pentagon's unparalleled ability to forget painfully acquired knowledge. And as far as the comments Gates and Mullen made– well, with apologies to Dr. Samuel Johnson, they "were like a dog walking on its hind legs, . . it's not done well, but one is surprised to find it done at all." Nor do I think we can rule out these two trying to burnish their street cred as knuckle draggers to secure a lucrative position with a lobbying firm after retirement. That they might be trying to deliberately provoke some ill-conceived Pakistani reaction would be a foolish act of the first order.
Yeah, we really showed them. We sit here in bankruptcy, launching war after war with no end in sight, and these clowns are spiking the ball. Wait til the printing presses at the fed run out of ink and the natives here at home get restless.
Humiliating people and gloating about it is a sure sign of being EVIL.