Obama and Afghanistan/Pakistan III: "No."

by Paul Wells on Friday, March 27, 2009 4:47pm - 4 Comments

More from Holbrooke’s press briefing:

Q Can I ask about the question of corruption with regard to Pakistan? The President alluded today to some problems in getting Pakistanis to respond when we have high-level intelligence – or have intelligence about high-level terrorists, and he said, “We will insist that action be taken.” Does that mean if the Pakistanis will act we will not, and if they do not, we will?

AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE: I just don’t think we can answer that question. It’s speculative, it’s hypothetical, and it would be deeply injurious to our national interest to speculate. But I appreciate the importance of the question, and that’s all we’re ready to say.

Q Can you say something about what the President meant by that?

AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE: No.

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Tags: Afghanistan/Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke

Wayne

Duh! can you imagine if he did what would happen.
Critical Reasoning

It must be the last Friday of the month again. ;-) I’m not sure what we’re to make of this Holbrooke snippet, except to take notes on the proper way to avoid a sensitive question if the need arises. Obviously the US finds Pakistan to be extremely unreliable ally, and they are not going to rule out illegal incursions into Pakistan territory in order to launch military strikes at high-priority Al-Qaeda targets.
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/ Mark Collins

Holbrook and Petraeus on PBS Newshour, with video–note end of post:
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-war-petraeus-and-holbrooke-on.html

Mark
Ottawa
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/ Mark Collins

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Mark
Ottawa