Posted on 07/03/2012 7:46:30 PM PDT by tobyhill
Pakistan agreed Tuesday to reopen its border crossings to U.S. and NATO military transit after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized for a deadly U.S. airstrike last year.
The moves ended a seven-month diplomatic standoff and raised hopes within the Obama administration that the Pakistanis are ready to expand counterterrorism cooperation.
The White House had resisted Pakistan’s insistence on an explicit apology for the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in the November airstrike. But a flurry of meetings in recent days led to Clinton issuing an artfully worded statement saying she had spoken with her counterpart in Islamabad and agreed that mistakes were made on both sides.
“We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military,” the statement said. “We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again.”
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Apologies are a dime a dozen these days. Everybody’s doing it.
Free our active duty servicemen and women from the horrendous rules of engagement in Afghanistan.
Over 70% of casualties there have occurred under the POS 0bama.
The best way to “open” supply lines is by “creating” glass parking lots connecting Islamabad and Kandahar using thermonuclear weapons...
A real “President” (what is a real president? A president that takes the welfare of his country to heart) would have threaten to cut off all US money and continued all drone and kill activities. But, no, we have a wuss as commander in chief who happens to sympathize with all things Muslim. G_d help us.
Pakistan accepts our apology and our aid money.
And how many billion $$$$ in bribes and payoffs will it cost the U.S.?
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