Pakistan’s foreign minister on Saturday warned the United States against putting boots on the ground in Pakistan to fight the Haqqani network, which allegedly launches attacks in Afghanistan from North Waziristan and is tied to the Pakistani government.
The warning comes after days of US officials accusing elements of the Pakistani government, specifically the intelligence service ISI, of having ties to the Haqqani network in a proxy war against the US in Afghanistan. The accusations have been denied.
“If many of your goals are not achieved, you do not make someone a scapegoat,” Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said, addressing the US. She also sternly reminded the US that there are rules of engagement, which should not be broken.
But the US has been breaching Pakistani sovereignty for years, conducting kill/capture operations with special operations forces an undisclosed number of times and running a drone program has been expanded many-fold, resulting in untold numbers of civilians casualties and increasing instability along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
Go ahead – invade Pakistan maybe it will win President Obama a second Peace Prize .
It certainly will not save America from ignoable FAILURE in their War on Terror.
Bye the war "What is the War on terror"?
Is it killing hundreds of thousands of men, women and children y bombing their homes?
Seems to me this is a greater terror than what any of the so called terrorists did.
The US has already invaded Pakistan, isn't that clear? Doesn't the toll of civilians slaughtered by drones show that? The US, however, is trying to justify an excuse to make it "official" – as if they needed one. Ha!
If Western media was not all funded by the corporate rich, a front page headline would read:
Caspian Sea oil + Afghan pipeline + India market = WAR ON PAKISTAN
Hubris was introduced to and enlisted to train his replacement, Nemesis, back about 10 years ago. Now We're hearing some old guy named Senescence is being touted as his likely successor…such tragic times we live in. I bet the bastard still gets his golden parachute, tho.
With all that war going on in the air, helicopter gun-ships, F16 fighter-jets, predator drones and missiles unlimited flowing through the air — comes now “boots on the ground” to be nothing but hot air.
1. US sends troops.
2. Pakistan warns US not to do what it has already done.
3. US pays Pakistan.
4. Pakistan shuts up.
5. Repeat step 1.