• Posts Tagged ‘decision 08’

    Rewind the “Attack Pakistan” Comment – Palin

    by  • September 30, 2008 • Pakistan, United States, Video • 0 Comments

    Watch CBS Videos Online Katie Couric had another exclusive interview tonight–one with both John McCain and his running Sarah Palin. And in the video above, Couric asks Palin about her remarks–made while getting a cheesesteak in Philadelphia, to a Temple University graduate student–saying the U.S. should cross the Afghanistan border to Pakistan (“If that’s what [...]

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    Afghanistan. Pakistan. Forgotten. – Joe Biden

    by  • September 29, 2008 • Pakistan • 3 Comments

    An op-ed piece from Joe Biden in the New York Times. The next president will have to rally America and the world to “fight them over there unless we want to fight them over here.” The “over there” is not, as President Bush has claimed, Iraq, but rather the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. That [...]

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    World Safer Place Because of Bush – Asif Zardari

    by  • September 28, 2008 • Pakistan, Politics, United States, War on Terror • 0 Comments

    This morning’s Daily Times carried a stunning headline for Pakistanis. Asif Ali Zardari, to clarify “the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan” stated that ”Obviously, the world is a safer place,” he said. “It could have been worse,” in an interview with the Washington Post on Saturday. Can I ask which world Zardari is talking [...]

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    And the other shoe drops….

    by  • March 16, 2007 • Pak - US • 0 Comments

    As expected, the US Congress has approved a bill on US aid restrictions. This bill includes the amendment from Kerry, Dodd and Biden that calls for strict controls on all aid to Pakistan based on its satisfactory participation in the War on Terror. Now, since most of the US administration and foreign policy teams are [...]

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    Pakistan Not Doing Enough? – Part II

    by  • March 12, 2007 • Pak - US • 0 Comments

    It seems very funny that coming off the multitudes of statements about Pakistan not doing enough in the War on Terror, the Democrats would want to curtail foreign aid until they do more. I have been following the debate in the US Congress this past week, led by Senators John Kerry and John McCain, about [...]

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