Joe Shearer
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Didn't I say don't bother me again!!
My point is simple, Nawaz lost his nerves in front of Clinton. Next para clarifys how,
" Sandy told the president that he was heading into what would probably be the single most important meeting with a foreign leader of his entire presidency. It would also be one of the most delicate. The overriding objective was to induce Pakistani withdrawal. But another, probably incompatible, goal was to increase the chances of Sharif’s political survival. “If he arrives as a prime minister but stays as an exile,” said Sandy, “he’s not going to be able to make stick whatever deal you get out of him.” We had to find a way to provide Sharif just enough cover to go home and give the necessary orders to Musharraf and the military."
I am an English Speaker, off you go idiot.
You may be an English speaker, but you are certainly not an English reader. What did the entire episode mean? Nawaz Sharif did not go there on invitation, he practically barged in. If he had been given a winning brief by his military, why did he go to Washington? At Washington, they knew that there was a face-saving issue, and they acted on it. The paragraph you have quoted proves that. The overriding objective was to induce Pakistani withdrawal; why did that turn up? Because India asked for it? Was India able to compel the Pakistani PM to go to Washington?
All India had to do was to keep blowing up Pakistani bunkers.
Nawaz Sharif was sent to Washington with a Mission Impossible, to defend the intruders and to obtain a face-saving formula; it was because he was unable to get this done that he showed signs of losing his nerve.
If you want to know more, check the accounts of Shaukat Aziz and Mushahid Hussain, not to mention Kaisar Tufail.
And learn to read.