Neither President Bush nor Pakistan's President Musharraf denied that our cooperation began with a threat to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age"
Maybe I was wrong in my defense of Richard Armitage some weeks ago ...
If he indeed did threaten President Pervez Musharraf that we would "bomb them back to the Stone Age" if they didn't cooperate with us in the "War on Terror," then he certainly went "over the top" as Colin Powell's deputy back in 2001.
Neither Bush nor Musharraf would comment on it (neither denied it!) when the question came up, but you can bet that some of my good friends in Pakistan (one of the editors of the main newspaper in Islamabad was a student and close friend -- a woman, no less, in a Muslim country) are even more disillusioned by our heavy-handed tactics with our "friends" and "allies" around the world.
So am I!!
Apparently, there's a book coming out by Musharraf that has the answer to whether that threat is real or exaggerated. He said that he was "honor bound" to Simon and Schuster Publishers not to say anything that would "give away" any revelations in the book.
To Mr. Bush's credit, he sort of shied away from the question and simply asked the television audience to "buy the book." LOL! He also said that he was "taken aback" by the wording of the threat ... which suggests that either Colin Powell or Richard Armitage (or both) stepped out of the box ... at least I hope that such words would not be in the White House "box."
Uhh ... this posting is bigger than it might look, I think. Remember ... Pakistan is a member of the Nuclear Club.
posted by Dr. Joe @ 7:45 PM
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hello,
i hope you are fine this week end and it's very sunny there. here it is.
strangely we didn't hear on tv about this even it's true that in france news come after days.
thank you for the fun with the text under the picture ;)
maybe what i'm going to say will appear strange to you but i can understand what they said compared to the times (someway like i'll explain). If they said it.
I would ask you something because i don't know any pakistanian person sadly. There is a famous philospher in France, very famous! Bernard Henri Levy, we call him BHL. He was writing about the story of Daniel Pearl murder. The book is "Who killed Daniel Pearl". The book is terrible ! if you read it you think Pakistan is very dangerous country, THE dangerous country. you know about nuclear power and the relation with al qaida.
Iranians are very surprised that Pakistan and Soudi arabia are so much well considered by usa when they are the responsible of terrorism in the world (most of the ones i know think this).
So considering this that's why i can understand a little bit the words if they are true. Ok sadly condoleeza is very bad diplomatic woman as cheney and rumsfeld who are very critized in the world. BUt look! you were saying yourself in one of your post answering me... you have an idea about why this world is hell especially about iraq: some helps. i don't know what you think but at least i know my country and europe is impossible to trust. here we wan(we is not me) the great europe. the army europe. we are making models with china and russia and in front of you we say opposite.
i'd like so much usa starts be diplomatic but still stand up against terror. what is good in your country is that people can change your country. they speak freely. everyone knows about everything. here in my old association it was known for 20 years but still people don't know.
canada, australia, usa. for me you are the models of the world. I would like so much be american sometimes and say to the world that all countries are great and deserve the democracy and the hapiness of their people. Only in usa right now it is possible.
take care
le rouge et le noir -
Pakistan is very distrusted by the average American. Saudis are considered as being from the 14th Century or so.
Our Government maintains good relations with both (Pakistan - nukes; and Saudi Arabia - oil) Governments but are generally diliked by the populations.
Eh ... so what's new?
Cheers
MWN (Joe)
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