RazorMC
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...Second, a hasty American withdrawal? I thought you guys hate Americans, what did you want them to stick around for, to build the Taliban base camps for you? Pakistan pursued her own agendas during the war and especially afterwards. Now they are back to help you and you want them to desert you. Cycle of confusion, please don't involve me in it.
We didn't hate Americans and we still don't. There is a difference between mistrust and hate. We didn't want them to just pack and leave the first time the US was here. All the hardware that was distributed to the Mujahideen should have been accounted for and destroyed.
The second time is heading down a similar road. They are not here to help us just like they weren't here for us the first time. They are here for their own reasons and purposes. And now that the job seems to near some level of completion, they plan on leaving Afghanistan before the job's fully done.
All we ask the US is to stop using Pakistan as a mere base for its purposes. If the US wants good-relations with us, they'll find a lot of takers. But another period of a solely task-oriented alliance won't work.