The US and Pakistan appear to be heading for renewed collision after a top American general blamed a bloody attack on a Kabul hotel on Pakistan-based Haqqani network and White House vowed to take “necessary steps” to mitigate the threat.
“Our concern about militants using Pakistan as a safe haven from which to launch attacks against our forces is well known,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters, traveling with President Barack Obama on Air Force One to Tampa.
“We’ll take steps necessary to mitigate that threat,” the spokesman said in hard comments after US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan General John Allen accused the Haqqani network of orchestrating a 12-hour siege on a lakeside hotel in Kabul that killed 18 people on Friday.
In a statement, Allen blamed the al Qaeda-linked network just weeks after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the US was running out of patience with Pakistan over its refusal to eliminate terror havens.
Earnest said Washington had raised the issue “both publicly and privately with the Pakistani government”.
“We value our relationship with Pakistan and we’ll continue to find ways to work together to combat those terrorist groups that pose a threat both to the United States forces, but also to innocent Pakistani civilians,” he said.
US must exercise caution, as any such unthoughtful move could escalate violence in this region. The world knows that the empire met with failure in its first adventure in Iraq that is going to be followed by Afghanistan. The decline of this shortest lived Empire in human history is written on the wall.
American are miles ahead of you in thinking .. what u think they dont know what u know? It wanted to occupy Afganistan and it did.. it wanted to destroy Iraq it did…even after 2014 several thousand US troops will be in Afganistan. Afganistan will not be at ur mercy…LOLz but you need a thrashing that will happen soon…
And unfortunately it never learnt from Vietnam.
You are in our nuke range so I would be careful what I say!
You should be, if you don't want total annihilation.
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