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Things have gotten very nasty between the incoming Pakistani majority and the US perhaps best summed up by this very public jab at Negroponte.
“How is Pakistan different to Honduras?” Mr. Saleem asked, a query clearly intended to tweak Mr. Negroponte about his time as ambassador to Honduras in the 1980s, when he was in charge of the American effort to train and arm a guerrilla force aimed at overthrowing the leftist government in Nicaragua. He was later criticized for meddling in the region and overlooking human rights abuses in pursuit of United States foreign policy goals./
posted by mikevotes at
6:24 AM
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Oh, yeah... Negroponte and Boucher really stepped in it over in Pakistan. BBC reports the new majority was really bent out of shape when the US envoys insisted on coming before the new government was officially formed and new prime minister was not yet sworn in. The Pakistanis really see the US not as an ally, but as Musharraf sympathizers. Not to mention just plain ol' boorish bullies.
January 2009 cannot come soon enough!
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-epm, at 10:12 AM
Right. The other comment that keeps coming from the new parliament and its parties are questions over why the US backed the sacking of the Chief Justice Chaudry and backed the security crackdown and mass arrests.
When it became clear that Musharraf wouldn't last, the US backed him in a two month stall during which they conducted three airstrikes and who knows what else.
We lost future cooperation from this government in those two months.
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mikevotes, at 1:33 PM
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