Spearhead Analysis – 24.08.2016
President
Obama set the ball rolling when in a major speech he referred to
Pakistan as an ‘abysmally dysfunctional country’. This need not have
been taken seriously because President Obama had also stated that
Raymond Davis was a diplomat. In fact earlier Presidents Nixon, Reagan,
Bush and Clinton had all made statements that turned out to be, well,
not true. President Obama’s statement was followed by a hearing of the
Joint Sub-Committee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs “Pakistan,
Friend or Foe”. While concluding the hearing the Chairman, Mr Matt
Salmon said: “For the record, I personally believe that we should
completely cut off all funding to Pakistan. I think that would be the
right first step. And then, a State Sponsor of Terrorism declaration. …
Right now we have the worst policy that we could possibly have; all we
are doing is rewarding thugs.” The panel of ‘experts’ that the Sub
Committee had lined up were led by, not unsurprisingly, Mr Zalmay
Khalilzad a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan who gave his expert
opinion that ‘One may conclude now that Pakistan is a State Sponsor of
Terror”.
Read Full Article: The Awakening
President
Obama set the ball rolling when in a major speech he referred to
Pakistan as an ‘abysmally dysfunctional country’. This need not have
been taken seriously because President Obama had also stated that
Raymond Davis was a diplomat. In fact earlier Presidents Nixon, Reagan,
Bush and Clinton had all made statements that turned out to be, well,
not true. President Obama’s statement was followed by a hearing of the
Joint Sub-Committee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs “Pakistan,
Friend or Foe”. While concluding the hearing the Chairman, Mr Matt
Salmon said: “For the record, I personally believe that we should
completely cut off all funding to Pakistan. I think that would be the
right first step. And then, a State Sponsor of Terrorism declaration. …
Right now we have the worst policy that we could possibly have; all we
are doing is rewarding thugs.” The panel of ‘experts’ that the Sub
Committee had lined up were led by, not unsurprisingly, Mr Zalmay
Khalilzad a former US Ambassador to Afghanistan who gave his expert
opinion that ‘One may conclude now that Pakistan is a State Sponsor of
Terror”.
No comments:
Post a Comment