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| Gates: US 'Humiliated' Pakistan |
| 2011-05-19 |
| U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that the U.S. raid on Pakistan to eliminate Osama Bin-Laden had “humiliated” Karachi. Speaking at a news conference together with Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gates said that too many details of the raid had become public that should have been kept quiet, and that the revelations could hurt future operations. "If I were in Pakistani shoes, I would say I've already paid a price," Gates said. "I've been humiliated. I've been shown that the Americans can come in here and do this with impunity. I think we have to recognize that they see a cost in that and a price that has been paid." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Sigh, I really wish we had some real men running our foreign policy. We always get sold down the river by the pantywaists at State. We should apply a generous serving of bombs and napalm on Foggy Bottom first, then we can visit the other trouble spots. You know, if Sparky keeps screwing with the Israelis, they may take care of the problem for us. |
| Posted by: Tiny Ebbitch4829 2011-05-19 19:18 |
| #6 Pakistain sometimes makes me pine after the good old days of John Foster Dulles. He would have told Gilani that if he didn't fix the problem in Pakistain that we would. And we would have, in our own quaint heavy handed overwhelming military force way with lots of bombs and napalm. Sigh, I really wish we had some real men running our foreign policy. We always get sold down the river by the pantywaists at State. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-19 13:21 |
| #5 Gates provides more diversion and cover for the PAK gov't and military by poking the Pak little people squrely in the eye. Sorry Rob ole boy, some of us aren't buying it, nor or we buying the tough talk from the Chinese communists over the issue of PAK sovereignty. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-05-19 11:59 |
| #4 Pakistan humiliated itself by double dealing all these years. Fred was right in covering Pakistan all these years. It is a main center of gravity of terrorism. It also shows what happens when you play footsies all these years, rather than dealing with the problem from the git go. We have been mucking about in Afghanistan for 10 YEARS wasting troops and treasure on the symptoms of the problem. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-05-19 11:01 |
| #3 "Walking hurts their pride. Your watching will hurt it worse." - Captain Nathan Brittles, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-05-19 10:37 |
| #2 I am beginning to think that Pakistain is the world's largest insane asylum and every nut job and kook in Islam resides there...well maybe most of them. Now if we can just get Achmendinut to move to Pakistain. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-05-19 10:35 |
| #1 And Gates wants to make sure the Pakis are feeling humiliated enough, not being sure. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-05-19 10:12 |