CIA chief and likely incoming Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has left Pakistan today after his high profile weekend visit to Pakistan ended with a failure to achieve any concessions from either the nation’s military chief or ISI head.
Panetta arrived in Pakistan on Friday and immediately accused the Zardari government of harboring elements that are secretly colluding with militants. Defense Secretary Robert Gates continued this theme today, expressing regret over sharing information with the country.
As with several other high profile Pakistan visits, Panetta’s was ostensibly aimed at improving ties with the nation, with an undercurrent of issuing new demands to the nation’s military. Officials said Panetta was surprisied at the “rigidity” of Pakistan’s army chief Gen. Parvez Kayani.
But perhaps he oughtn’t be. Each recent visit by officials has ended exactly the same way, with officials issuing demands, making accusations, and departing with relations even worse than they were before. In that respect Panetta’s visit was more of the same.
So the Emperor's man is sent packing .
The gall of the Americans to continue treating Pakistan ( and indeed all other country's) as slaves at their beck and call is amazing.
Will these people ever learn?
All Nations and all people should be treated with dignity and not as slaves to their bidding.
All of these failures are a part of the collapse of the fascist amerikan empire !
How is it if we demand americans to kill their people? As I always say pakistan amry has become a rented army and our security agencies are more americans than pakistani.
They have forgotten undoubtedly their families or green card is american but their root is in pakistan.
On the order of samerica Musharraf destroed pakistan and still it is going on. Every child now knows that these so calledsuicide bomers are remote controll bombings inspired and carried out by CIA agents.
As I wrote the area of FATA is very poor and families are big and one person to purchase for 10000 dollars is nothing for CIA and the same game is done by CIA ally RAW.
I had been in pakistan and the people hate america for these acts against pakistan.
America is always dictating pakistani army ISI and even the politicians to do this to do that is non sense.
This is history of super powers to dictate impossible things.
It will better for both to leave this region and stop blame game and lies.
Why americans invaded Afghanistan ? just bacause they wanted to dictate and controll the region.
Although on so called 9/11 not single person was accused to Afghani or pakistani only latter CIA agents were picked and killed.
America should stop acting as god. They should realize that they are living in occupied territory and they are illegal immigrants. Americans need to respect others to be respected and they can not ask others to do whatever they want them to do. Americans should be reminded that the sun is setting and they are simpling living on China creating problems in Middle East just to get hold of the oil and freezing the money and wealth that the ME has in the USA. They will soon create problem Pacific with china and then will tell China that what money USA owes to China? Settle the problem, improve the human rights and talk. The only way to teach America a lesson is to tell them off on the face. Short and simple.
What was Panetta expecting? A thank you note for the drone strikes? A bouquet of flowers in gratitude for "killing" OBL and embarrassing them?
The current crop of US diplos and statesmen are the most arrogant, ignorant, infantile and tone deaf that we have seen, since…well the previous administration of buffoons, and you can only get away with treating other people like subhumans beneath your contempt for so long.
No matter what I think Obama needs to return the peace price and close the democratic party.., for one: there is no peace since he took the office, for two: there is no democracy coming out of the democratic party.., on less he (Obama) clearly and officially apology to Libyan, Palestinian, Syria, Iran and rest of the world for a misleading and non democratic policy toward people in Middle East. People in Middle East have tried for years to be as one and help each other to solve their own problems.., each and every English – EU – US government been the obstetrical to that fact.., here Obama and Hillary Clinton once again have shown that they are working very hard to divide nations in Middle East helping one sect to be against another using the word democracy. This "democratic" agenda been a falsified notion and is the reason for all the problems people of middle east facing, its been the destructive tool to mislead and confuse the people while they are fighting each other. Obama and Hillary Clinton working very hard to defend the true Tyrants in Saudis and Arab Emirates resulting in more division among nations in Middle East.