On the other hand, if you want to invade the American Southwest with tens of millions of illegal aliens, that's fine. And in 20 years when they hold a U.N. referendum and declare independence, I'll be dead anyway.
Posted on 10/29/2009 3:02:06 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Secretary of state responds to student who suggested Washington was forcing Pakistan to use military force on its own territory with: "If you want to see your territory shrink, that's your choice."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan had little choice but to take a more aggressive approach, starting last summer, to combatting Taliban and other extremist forces that threaten to destabilize the country.
In a lively give-and-take with students at the Government College of Lahore, Clinton said inaction by the government would have amounted to ceding ground to terrorists.
"If you want to see your territory shrink, that's your choice," she said, adding that she believed it would be a bad choice.
Clinton likened Pakistan's situation -- with Taliban forces taking over substantial swaths of land in the Swat valley and in areas along the Afghan border -- to a theoretical advance of terrorists into the United States from across the Canadian border. It would be unthinkable, she said, for the U.S. government to decide, "Let them have Washington (state)" first, then Montana, then the sparsely populated Dakotas, because those states are far from the major centers of population and power on the East Coast.
Clinton was responding to a student who suggested that Washington was forcing Pakistan to use military force on its own territory. It was one of several questions from the students that raised doubts about the relationship between the United States and Pakistan.
During her hour-long appearance at the college, Clinton stressed that a key purpose of her three-day visit to Pakistan, which began Wednesday, was to reach out to ordinary Pakistanis and urge a better effort to bridge differences and improve mutual understanding.
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Good, Hillary! Now apply that thinking to Afghanistan.
“Let them have Washington (state)” first, then Montana, then the sparsely populated Dakotas, because those states are far from the major centers of population and power on the East Coast. Good, Hillary! Now apply that thinking to Afghanistan.”
Or the U.S. for illegal immigration from Mexico and the Middle East.
Thank goodness none of the students asked Hillary what Bubba thought about the Swat Valley.
LOL!!! Outstanding!
Hillary is just sooooo smooooth!
So this means Hillary also supports Israel's self-defense against Palestinian terrorism and territorial encroachment!
Right?
More Smart Power BS Diplomacy! Did Hill dodge any terror bombs in Pockeestan yet?
Exactly.
On the other hand, if you want to invade the American Southwest with tens of millions of illegal aliens, that's fine. And in 20 years when they hold a U.N. referendum and declare independence, I'll be dead anyway.
“We are now at a point where we can chart a different course”
The voyage being planned is to stay in port. The course is nil
Mrs. Bill talking to young men about shrinkage.
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