Afghanistan would side with Pakistan in war with US, says Hamid Karzai

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Sunday 23 October 2011



President says Afghans 'will never betray their brother' in TV interview aired days after Kabul visit by Hillary Clinton

___ "If there is war between Pakistan and America, we will stand by Pakistan," Karzai said in a television interview. He put his hand on his heart and described Pakistan as a "brother" country . . .

Nevertheless, the interview with Geo, Pakistan's largest network, was at stark variance with the tone set during a visit to the region by Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, and David Petraeus, the CIA director, days earlier . . .

In Kabul, Clinton bluntly warned Pakistan that the US would act unilaterally if Islamabad failed to crack down on the Taliban-linked Haqqani network inside its North Waziristan sanctuary . . .

Karzai's interview with Geo was aired barely 24 hours after Clinton left the region. He said Afghanistan owed Pakistan a great debt for sheltering millions of refugees over the past three decades, and stressed that his foreign policy would not be dictated by any outside power.

"Anybody that attacks Pakistan, Afghanistan will stand with Pakistan," he said. "Afghanistan will never betray their brother."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/23/afghanistan-pakistan-us-hamid-karzai?newsfeed=true

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. No worries, we will ignore that bit of reality, then wonder what the hell happened later.

Par for the course.
"No one could have foreseen..........."

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Which begs the question of why things would degenerate so much that there would

be a war between the U.S. and Pakistan in the first place.