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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| mises wrote: |
| America is trying to destabilize Pakistan. That is as stupid as it is scary. |
That's brutally true. America's also supplying military hardwares to India in relation to these incidents in the past.
I have many Pakistani friends in Canada and I don't really mind their anti-American sentiments. I don't see any reason to oppose my friends. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:55 am Post subject: |
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Not to mince words, then, Davis is a hostage. In addition to the usual sense of the word, he is a hostage to the Pakistani authorities who dare not�even if they wish�make an enemy either of the Islamist mobs or the uniformed para-state run by the intelligence services. He is also a hostage to the inability or unwillingness of the U.S. government to call things by their right names. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have made the correct noises about the relevant international statutes governing immunity, and their envoy Sen. John Kerry (who should never have been sent unless notified in advance that he would return with the prisoner) has even spoken of putting Davis on trial in the United States, which in ordinary circumstances might seem a little premature. But they all talk as if Pakistan were a country of law, and they all talk as if Pakistan were not a client state. Its client status, indeed, is what leads so many Pakistanis to detest America, without whose largesse and indulgence it would long ago have faced collapse. Thus to the final irony: We are denied leverage by the fact of the very influence for which we are hated.
This sick relationship with Pakistan, which plays a continuous and undisguised double-cross on us in Afghanistan, will probably have to be terminated at some point. But in the meantime, it will have to be made very clear to the rulers of that country that if they want to keep Raymond Davis in prison, they will have to manage without our subsidies. He may be a bad test of an important principle, but it is still the important principle that is being tested, and we have no more right to compromise on the principle of diplomatic immunity than the Pakistanis have to violate it. |
http://www.slate.com/id/2286722/ |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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US buys dude's freedom
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LAHORE, Pakistan � American officials won the release on Wednesday of a C.I.A. contractor under investigation for two counts of murder here after they spent more than six hours with the families of the victims, the lawyer for the families Asad Manzoor Butt said.
The families accepted a payment of money, ending the case, Mr. Butt said. He did not specify the amount. |
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