WASHINGTON:
In the fall of 2009, US President Barack Obama’s group of advisers conducted a review of pouring more US troops into Afghanistan or not, quietly pushing a hawkish line. However, the Advisers were veterans of President Bill Clinton’s administration, and they had peppered Obama’s secretary of state, Hilary Clinton, with messages urging a counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan and a tougher US stance towards Pakistan, according to US State Department’s emails, Tuesday.
The emails reveal how, even as Obama ran a highly formalised Afghan policy review of near-endless meetings and position papers, Hillary Clinton was receptive to outsiders’ sometimes off-the-cuff views delivered through back-channels.
“Hopefully, we can be more decisive: lean harder on the Pakistanis, provide more troops to (Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley) McChrystal … and raise the heat on al Qaeda,” Clark wrote.
On Oct. 3, Berger emailed Clinton with a provocative proposal: the United States should take targetted measures against military officials in Pakistan, nominally a US ally, who support al Qaeda.
These were not Mrs. Clinton 's views but the tweets and email send to her by the democratic congressmen. We can not attribute these e mail messages to her considered opinion. She never acted upon such advise. we must keep the records straight instead of making it look like she was pandering to these views of hardliners.
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