Threats: Obama’s Kabul indoctrination: Venom against Pakistan

Mr. Obama was sent on a trip to Afghanistan to hear the viptuperative ”Mayor of Kabul“, Mr. Karzai fill the ears of the Senator with venom against Pakistan. Those that the gods will destroy they first make mad…Senator Obama will surely come back to the States with a demented idea about Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kabul ventriloquist’s bravado-Puppet Karzai’s bluster. The Illinios Senator and ”resumptive Democartic candidate” is trying to enhance his foreign policy resume. He will come back and repeat Mr. Karzai’s opprobrium. He did not get the Pakistani point of view. Afghanistan: Why was India attacked in Kabul?   Mr. Husain Haqqani will unashamedly repeat Mr. Karzia’s contumelious,  opprobrious, and scurrilous invective. Pakistan: Deflecting the US “Do more mantra” Despite Mr. Haqqani’s usual nonsensical billingsgate, the entire Pakistani machinery has already sprung into action decrying the vignette of Afghanistan that Mr. Obama just got. Kabul bombing: Ruse to send Indian troops to Afghansitan?

Pakhtuns to India: Get out of Afghanistan 

India vs. Pakistan–Gwador vs. Chabahar. No matter how many politicians are purchased by Washington the fact remains that until and unless the US recognizes the interests of Pakistan in Afghanistan, there can never be peace in Kabul. Proxy war in Afghanistan: Strategic depth vs Strategic clout.  Anti-Americanism is at an all time high in Pakistan. The message from Pakistan to the USA is stark: Pakistan to USA: “We are unclear about your intentions and you must know if you do not trust us we trust you even less”

War drums in the Gulf, Hindu Kush & the Khyber Pass  

Pakistanis want to say this to you: Your threats against Pakistan are not the first from an American. History is a testament to dozens of threats from US officials and candidates. Many of the ones on the Republican side bit the dust (lost), and many of the other threats emanating from the Neocons and those with double nationalities have left an impact on Pakistanis.

THE PAKISTANI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THREATS: Mountbatten, Nehru, Indira, Kruschev, Johnson, Carter, Kissinger (Nixon), Gobachov, Clinton, Armitage (Bush), Karzia (Bush and Vajpayee/Sing) have all threatened Pakistan: The Pakistanis are used to it…so what else is new?!! Pakistan’s Nuclear Program should be seen in the backdrop of these threats.

Senator Obama read the writing on the wall.

Defeat in Afghanistan: Yankee Go home

The defeat in Afghanistan can only be turned around with a Marshall Plan for Pakistan.

Obama Meets Afghan Leader and Discusses Terrorism By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20 - Senator Barack Obama met with President Hamid KarzaiofAfghanistan for nearly two hours on Sunday and “conveyed that he is committed to supporting Afghanistan and to continuing the war against terrorism with vigor,” an Afghan presidential spokesman said.

The meeting, which continued over a traditional Afghan lunch of chicken, mutton and rice, was conducted in a “very friendly environment,” the spokesman, Homayun Hamidzada, said.

Mr. Obama and the two other senators traveling with him - Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska; and Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island - reaffirmed the United States’ bipartisan support for Afghanistan. And Mr. Karzai asked that the senators pass on the “immense gratitude” of the Afghan people to their constituents and the American public, Mr. Hamidzada said at a news briefing after the lunch.

In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Mr. Obama said: “We have to understand that the situation is precarious and urgent here in Afghanistan. And I believe this has to be our central focus, the central front on our battle against terrorism.

Mr. Hamidzada made light of Mr. Obama’s earlier criticism of Mr. Karzai as not getting out of his bunker enough to help Afghanistan develop, saying it was not so much a criticism as a statement of realism.

“While we are making progress, we are also facing the significant threat of terrorism that is imposed upon us and on the Afghan people,” he said. “We are spending a lot of time and resources on fighting terrorism,” he said, adding that the government hoped in the future to spend more of those resources on the development of Afghanistan.

Discussions were mainly on a broad level of Afghanistan’s partnership with the United States but did cover the “unmet challenges” the Afghan government has to tackle, in particular fighting corruption, counter-narcotics and regional and global terrorism, Mr. Hamidzada said.

The spokesman did not comment directly on Mr. Obama’s campaign pledge to draw down troops from Iraq and send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, and to focus more on terrorist sanctuaries in Pakistan. Mr. Obama has clashed with his presumptive Republican rival, Senator John McCain, about whether the war in Iraq is a distraction in the fight against terrorism.

“Both parties are friends of Afghanistan and no matter who wins the U.S. elections, Afghanistan will have a very strong partner in the United States,” Mr. Hamidzada said.

“The people of Afghanistan do support the international presence,” he said to the plan to send more American troops to Afghanistan. The two parties had stressed the need for greater cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan and the United States and Pakistan, he said. “Terrorism challenges all three countries, all partners,” Mr. Hamidzada said.

Mr. Karzai has long called for the United States to put more pressure on Pakistan to curb militancy in its tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan. Mr. Obama has also pledged to broaden and change the American relationship with Pakistan.

Mr. Karzai’s two vice presidents, Ahmed Zia Masoud and Karim Khalil, Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta were also present at the meeting with Mr. Obama.

Mr. Obama’s visit to Afghanistan is part of a weeklong tour that will take him to Iraq, Israel and Western Europe in an effort to build impressions, and counter criticism, about his ability to serve as president in a time of war.

Mr. Obama arrived in eastern Afghanistan, near Pakistan, on Saturday to get a firsthand look at the region where American troops are feeling the brunt of increased attacks from militants infiltrating the border. In selecting Afghanistan as an early stop in his first overseas trip as the presumptive Democratic nominee, Mr. Obamawasseeking to highlight what he says is the central front in the fight against terrorism.

“Losing is not an option when it comes to Al Qaeda, and it never has been,” Mr. Obama told CBS News. “And that’s why the fact that we engaged in a war of choice when we were not yet finished with that task was such a mistake.”

Even as Mr. Obama met privately with American troops, military leaders and Afghan officials in the eastern part of the country on Saturday, Mr. McCain questioned his judgment on foreign policy. In a radio address, Mr. McCain said Mr. Obama had been wrong about the increase in troops in Iraq, a strategy Mr. McCain said should be the basis for addressing deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan as well.

Mr. McCain, whose campaign spokeswoman suggested that Mr. Obama was embarking on a “campaign rally overseas,” said his rival was not going to Afghanistan and Iraq with an open mind. “Apparently,” Mr. McCain said in his radio address, “he’s confident enough that he won’t find any facts that might change his opinion or alter his strategy. Remarkable.”

On Saturday, Mr. Obama appeared to receive support from an unexpected corner: Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The German magazine Der Spiegel reported that Mr. Maliki said he was in favor of the Obama plan to withdraw most American troops from Iraq over 16 months.

In an interview with the magazine, Mr. Maliki said he was not endorsing Mr. Obama’scandidacy, but called his proposal “the right timeframe for a withdrawal.”

Later, however, a spokesman for Mr. Maliki said the prime minister’s comments to Der Spiegel were “misunderstood and mistranslated” and were not “conveyed accurately.” The spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, did not elaborate on that explanation but reiterated that statements made by Mr. Malikiormembers of the Iraqi government should not be taken as a sign of support for any presidential candidate.

Brian Knowlton contributed reporting from Washington