LOL, in their dreams. She stared every single one of them down and put in a masterful performance. A mere woman too. I often wonder what would have happened if she'd become President...
She lost her cool and ranted an emotional outburst. Hardly appropriate for the Top Diplomat whose trip's whole purpose was to improve America's image in Pakistan. As I mentioned elsewhere, she has a history of such outbursts at the most inopportune moments. She has been outmaneuvered by Obama into a sucker spot, what with regional czars undermining her domain, and she can't live it down.
We will get al Qaeda, with or without Pakistan's help.
Doubtful, or you would have done it already after eight years. The US desperately needs Pakistan's help, whether their ego allows them to admit it or not. It is no secret that the US favors India far more than Pakistan, as part of the anti-China strategy, but it also cannot afford to alienate Pakistan too much.
I did not and would not vote for Hillary. But after this interview she has risen a notch in my view.
Hillary is quite popular with most Indians. She is, after all, referred to as D-Punjab, the Senator from Punjab.
What she said was:
1) The aid has been approved by congress, if you want it take it, we are not pushing it down your throats.
How very diplomatic of her.
2) The KL bill is for Pakistan, and as a result it is Pakistan centric, no mention of Kashmir, or India or Afghanistan.
Then she is either ignorant or being disingenuous. The KLB specifically mentions "neighboring countries" besides Afghanistan. Somehow I doubt the US lawmakers had Iran or China in mind when they put in those words in KLB.
Off the top of my head I'd say what remains of the Sovereign State of Pakistan will cease to exist.
Then you better start wearing a cap with the caption "THIS SPACE FOR RENT".
As you do you might as well stick the barrel of an AK right in your mouths and pull the trigger to my everlasting pleasure.
Did you forget to take your medication again?
Our billions are wasted on a country (NOT a nation) that makes Afghanistan's corruption the examples of rank amateurs.
Pakistan has elevated such to a high art-form and embedded it institutionally in your military and civil elite.
Well, at least Pakistani politicians did not start a pointless war to funnel hundreds of billions to their buddies in Haliburton. Kinda makes Zardari look like a philanthropist.
Pakistan screwed the pooch by their single-minded interest in promoting a pan-pashtu movement intended to DOMINATE Afghanistan IAW their strategic intent to always deflect pashtu nationalist aspirations away from the sacred Punjab and instead onto Afghanistan at the expense of the Hazara, tajiks, and Uzbeks.
That sentence epitomizes the ignorance of regional history that has dogged the US thinking for all these years. Pakistan engaged with the Pashtun Taliban purely to oppose the Indian puppets of Northern Alliance. Afghanistan has been a proxy battleground for India/Pakistan forever. India screwed up and lost Afghanistan to Pakistan, which prompted the US invasion of 2001, ostensibly in retaliation for 9/11, but really intended to replace the pro-Pakistan Taliban with the pro-India Northern Alliance. All this, as part of propping up India as a regional power to counter China.
Like desis have a rich tradition of honoring women, least of all, sorry to say, Pakistanis!
Grandstanding by Indians on the issue of women's rights is a laugh. A nation with 25 million child brides, rampant infanticide of baby girls and a 5000 year old thriving tradition of burning widows alive (Sati) really shouldn't lecture
anybody about women's rights.
25 million child-brides in India; 1/3rd of world's child-brides. - CNN iReport
Ugly face of American society you say? Isnt this "fancy mask" of civilization exactly what you came here for, the opportunities that this society creates? Hypocrisy at its best! You are fee to leave it if you don't like it. A big misconception that Americans cannot do anything if expatriates leave. We came here because of what they achieved, not the other way around. There are many others who like this society and are more than willing to occupy the place that you will vacate. You wont be missed.
Yet more blathering and pathetic grandstanding.
There are aspects of any culture that are ugly, and US culture is no exception. I recommend you read up the literature on the coarsening of American culture. Self-criticism is a right for everybody, including Pakistani-Americans and Indian-Americans, and is particularly encouraged in free societies. If you are unable to absorb self-criticism, perhaps you should leave the US and return to India to live an insulated life, nicely ensconced in the Indian media bubble.
...we'll have your family nicely assimilated too.
Are you familiar with that word? It's why we're the melting pot of the world.
The US is a good place to live because it welcomes diversity of thought, including self-criticism. Many Americans, including conservatives and religious people (of all religions) would share qsaark's concerns about certain vulgar aspects of American culture. I am sure you are well aware of Bill Bennet and others who have written on this matter.
Assimilation does not mean abandoning your traditional values or way of life. As long as you don't bother anybody else, it really is nobody's business how you live your life. The Amish are an extreme example of peaceful non-assimilation.
I have absolute contempt for the "love it or leave it" grandstanding crowd. Free societies are great, not because of people like that, but
despite them.
