US, Pakistan beginning to look more like enemies

[cosmicone]

Source: AP/Yahoo

ISLAMABAD (AP) — You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis.

So it was a bad sign this week when the U.S. defense secretary joshed in front of an audience of Indians about how Washington kept Pakistan in the dark about the raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden a year ago.

"They didn't know about our operation. That was the whole idea," Leon Panetta said with a chuckle at a Q&A session after a speech in New Delhi, raising laughs from the audience. The Bin Laden raid by U.S. commandos in a Pakistani town infuriated Islamabad because it had no advance notice, and it was seen by Pakistan's powerful military as a humiliation.

The U.S. and Pakistan are starting to look more like enemies than allies, threatening the U.S. fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants based in the country and efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan before American troops withdraw.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/us-pakistan-beginning-look-more-enemies-170927381.html

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Pakistan was never a friend anyway. It was always an enemy. Finally the powers that be are realizing it. Let's destroy the Haqqani network and Pakistanu ISI now.

[teddy51]

1. That's really a brilliant idea by the US and especially Panetta. Humiliate a nation that

has Nukes, really smart indeed.

[golfguru]

2. If it was not for the $$Billions in gift money every year

Pakistan would not even PRETEND to be a friend. 76% of Pakistani's love
Osama Bin Laden. That says it all.

[msongs]

3. our president knows how to make friends...kill their wives and kids nt

[Ashgrey77]

4. Ra Ra Ra, war war war

I'm sick and tired of this perpetual war bullshit. We need to close our bases around the world, and bring our troops ALL home. The beating of the never ending war drums has to stop. The last decade of the "war on terrorism" has brainwashed a entire generation into thinking this shit is normal and ok. It's not, it's fucking evil.

[may3rd]

5. no better friend money can buy n/t

[KansDem]

6. What happened? Did we not pony up the rent money...

...for Osama bin Laden while Bush "searched" for him?

Let this be a lesson for any country that wants to do business with the Bushistas...

[razorman]

7. Well, duh. Pakistan is not our friend.

You will never convince me that the authorities in Pakistan did not know exactly where Bin Laden was the whole time. Hell, our people knew for nearly a year. We need to recognize certain realities in the world, and stop pretending that any radical Islamic nation can truly be our ally.