In Pakistan, pro-American sentiment is rare

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Ali Khan Afridi is a wanted man.

Militants come to his house in this frontier city and menace his family. Men claiming to be from Pakistan’s intelligence services call at 2 a.m., and tell him to watch his back.

Afridi accepts all this as the price of his radical views: In a country where the vast majority of people believe the United States is an enemy, Afridi is unabashedly pro-American.

“I believe that America is the only power that can defeat these monsters, these terrorists,” Afridi said. “And that means my life is in permanent danger.”

Full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/in-pakistan-pro-american-expressions-are-are/2011/06/22/AGdj5shH_singlePage.html

[RandomThoughts]

1. Around the same percentage in America supports corporate governance.

Same for Pakistan, Greece, UK, and many other places

[Dokkie]

2. I wonder why

How about news articles stop telling us something we already know

[bvar22]

3. Gee.

I wonder why?
We are only dropping Humanitarian Freedom Bombs from unmanned drones.
You would think they would be grateful,
like the Afghans and Iraqis.

[Igel]

4. Dunno.

There was the humanitarian pacification and good-will mission to Mumbai a few years back that was sponsored by an ISI-favored group. And the sacking of the military leader who shamefully and disgracefully volunteered, without being unduly pressured, that the actual ambassador of good will was a Pakistani.

And lets not leave out the fact that those peaceful civilians so regularly regaled with "freedom bombs" leave their own mobile packages of love and joy around Peshawar, Quetta, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Swat, etc., etc., and have a real predilection for spreading their love and tolerance in markets and mosques. Do they despise those really targetting only civilians, or those targetting those who target civilians? Well, the first are fellow Pakistani Muslims so they're the good guys. (Part of me wishes speedy delivery of love-and-tolerance bombs to their doorsteps.)