Posted on 05/25/2009 1:56:37 PM PDT by Flavius
Reporting from Washington -- The Obama administration has appealed to China to provide training and even military equipment to help Pakistan counter a growing militant threat, U.S. officials said.
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Gaahhh!! China, help us!!! Stop that nukey-meanie in North Korea!! Loan us more money so we can spend ourselves into oblivion!! Do something about Pakistan!!
Hmm maybe they come here and help out as well...
I tell you what, this administration is stocked with the largest collection of idiots and clueless people on the planet.
Come to think of it, they can’t possibly be THIS STUPID!! What will India do with the United States telling China to get involved in Pakistan with troops and training?
This is getting ridiculous and these morons haven’t even been in office 6 months.
Not just let the FOX in the hen house.
Lets let in a few weasels and raccoons, too.
Yes, it really is possible that they are this stupid.
US for smaller India role in Kabul - New Delhi, May 26: The US administration is nudging India to scale down its presence in Afghanistan — including pruning or closing down its consulates — in line with Islamabad’s demands, sources said. This stand goes against US policy of the past eight years, when Washington wanted India to send troops to Afghanistan. The US is now hunting new allies to “stabilise” Pakistan and Afghanistan, such as China, Saudi Arabia and Iran that have leverage with Islamabad, as President Obama’s Afpak policy takes off.Delhi’s role in the rebuilding of Afghanistan, including infrastructure projects and integrated development projects, has not gone down well with Pakistan, which sees India’s strategic interest in its presence. Islamabad, which is the epicentre of America’s fight against terror in the region, is pressuring Washington to prevail upon New Delhi to reduce its presence in Afghanistan. The matter was hinted at in talks with India when Richard Holbrooke, the US administration’s special representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, was in Delhi recently. The sources said the US would like India to prune or shut down consulates in Herat and Jalalabad.
Other than the embassy in Kabul, India has four missions in Afghanistan — in Kandahar, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat and Jalalabad. Herat and Jalalabad are in regions where the Taliban are active, and Islamabad accuses India of using its consulates there to whip up anti-Pakistan sentiments. While Herat borders Iran, Jalalabad is close to Pakistan. The Obama administration is leaning towards Pakistan’s friends China and Saudi Arabia as the fight against the Taliban in the country becomes increasingly tenuous. Holbrooke visited China on April 16 and the US has sounded out Beijing on helping Pakistan fight the insurgents, the sources added. China has an immediate interest in this, having made huge investments in Pakistan, where some 10,000 of its engineers and technicians work. Besides, Pakistani training camps are blamed for the insurgency in the Xinjiang region of China. With Iran too coming into the picture in US policy on Afghanistan, Washington would be keener on shifting its focus on countries that have greater influence on Islamabad than New Delhi.
Nothing surprises me anymore. Obama is determined to make this a multi-polar world with US on the bottom.
{Smiling}, Obama may make us pine for the fjords, or at least former President Bush.
The Indians actually have an extremely good rapport with all the constituent ethnic groups composing Afghanistan.
They’ve lost numerous engineers to kidnappings, beheadings and worse, those who were working on road and other QOL improvement projects. Not reported much in the West, except probably here on FR.
Looks like Islamabad is calling the shots with this crowd.
It’s a shame that most Americans of Indian origin couldn’t give a darn about this.
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