Clinton challenges Pakistan to find bin Laden

[unhappycamper]

Clinton challenges Pakistan to find bin Laden
By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Thursday, October 29, 2009

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday pressed her one-woman blitz on Pakistani public opinion, bluntly challenging the country to defend its territory from an onslaught by religious extremists and asking why Pakistan's powerful military was unable to find Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Venturing where leading local politicians rarely go, she told university students in Lahore that Pakistan will have to fight the extremists unless "you want to see your territory shrink."

She delighted her audience by emphasizing her opposition to former President George W. Bush, saying the difference with the current administration was "like daylight and dark."

America's top diplomat also wondered out loud why Pakistan hadn't been more successful in tracking down al Qaida's top leaders, including bin Laden, who are widely thought to be hiding in the country. "I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to," Clinton told newspaper editors in Lahore.

Two days into her three-day visit, however, Pakistani analysts said that distrust of the United States was so deep that Clinton had little hope of swaying attitudes. Islamabad may be a crucial partner in the U.S. drive against Islamic terrorists, but the anti-American attitude is so engrained that the Pakistani public, news media and political opposition blame the surge of violence in the country in large part on the U.S. presence in the region.


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[saltpoint]

1. She could just ring up John McCain. John McCain said he knew how

to find bin Laden.

Why fly across the world when she could have just dropped by McCain's office in DC?

[Sebass1271]

5. So true!.. why fly the globe when she could have asked Mccain!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Oh yeah, sure. Hand over Bin Laden and REALLY piss off the Taliban . . . . .

[zbdent]

3. Well, George W. Bush really isn't that busy (I mean, inbetween keggers),

so why doesn't he renew his statement of "Dead or Alive" from 9/13/2001?

Oh, wait ... 3/13/2002 ... "I'm not that concerned about him."

Oh, wait again ... October 2004 ... "I don't believe I ever said that!"

[saigon68]

4. LOL

[zbdent]

6. better than sending Cheney over ...

the soldiers would be safer standing in front of him than behind ...

Maybe it's a good thing that Cheney had 5 deferments from Vietnam ... I would bet the U.S. dead in Vietnam would be triple the number ...

at least John Kerry knew how to actually hit his target ... the RWers tried to spin it as having shot an unarmed (and non-threatening) VC in the back ...