Posted on 05/03/2016 11:14:53 AM PDT by StCloudMoose
Stung by Donald Trump’s assertion that as president he would get Pakistan to release “in two minutes” the doctor who the U.S. says helped to track down Osama bin Laden, a Pakistani minister said Monday his country was not a U.S. colony and dismissed U.S. aid as “peanuts.”
“Contrary to Mr. Trump’s misconception, Pakistan is not a colony of the United States of America,” Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Khan said in a statement.
“Shakil Afridi is a Pakistani citizen, and nobody else has the right to dictate to us about his future,” Khan said. “He should learn to treat sovereign countries with respect.”
Afridi’s fate, he said, would be decided “by the Pakistani courts and the government of Pakistan and not by Mr. Donald Trump, even if he becomes the president of the United States.”
In an appearance on Fox News last week, the Republican presidential frontrunner was asked whether as president he would get Afridi released.
“I think I would get him out in two minutes. I would tell them, ‘Let him out’ and I’m sure they’d let him out,” he said. “Because we give a lot of aid to Pakistan. We give a lot of money to Pakistan.”
Trump said the Pakistanis have no respect for President Obama, and that they, like others, “just take us for a bunch of suckers.”
Guess those F-16’s ain’t moving too far unless BHO has something to say about it.
Hopefully Trump will let those bastards hate us for free.
I vote we give Pakistan the nuclear waster from our atomic power plants.
Deliver airmail to Karachi from about 15,000 feet.
Trump isn’t the President either, so take your whining butts and figure out who is really screwing the pouch here, and it’s not right that you expect US to support YOU!!!
Not one cent to pakistan or any other muzzy country.
Pakistan (and east pakistan known as bangladesh) are garbage cans for the worthless murdering muslims that infected India for ten centuries.
Cool the first cut in foreign welfare has already been determined!
I feel the deficit shrinking already.
If it’s just ‘peanuts’, they won’t miss it when it’s gone.
Pretty much true, we don’t give them much. So, let’s give them...nothing.
Another insane country with nukes.
OK lets see how they get along without that $2 billion check we give them every year.
Hopefully it was before Woodstock showed up and it got too preachy.
Doesn't sound like they are in awe of President Trump either.
“Well thank you for your candor, Mr. Khan. We’ve decided to strengthen our ties with India. We’re giving them the F-16s you paid for, letting them build a domestic version of the Abrams tank and we’re helping them develop amphibious assault ships and attack helicopters.
So you have yourself a nice day!”
Oh, okay. Well, we’ll just keep our peanuts then. Have a nice day!
Stop the peanuts right now.
Trump hasn't really been President long enough to show them how impressive he can be.
We should not be "giving" them ANYTHING!
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