Pakistan Wants China To Build It's Naval Base

[Mad Scientist]

Sorry it's not from MSNBC or Fox.
Pakistan wants China to build it a naval base.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/21/pakistan-says-wants-china-to-build-naval-base.html

Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted China to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter.
The announcement from Pakistan’s defence minister came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad’s biggest arms supplier.
“We would be … grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is … constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan,” Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said in a statement, referring to a deep-water port in Pakistan’s southwest.
The statement did not say whether Pakistan had asked China to build the base at the port in Baluchistan province.
Islamabad is trying to deepen ties with Beijing as relations with the United States have come under strain following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this month.

 

[American Horse]

Sorry it's not from MSNBC or Fox.
Pakistan wants China to build it a naval base.
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/21/pakistan-says-wants-china-to-build-naval-base.html

Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted China to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter.
The announcement from Pakistan’s defence minister came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad’s biggest arms supplier.
“We would be … grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is … constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan,” Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said in a statement, referring to a deep-water port in Pakistan’s southwest.
The statement did not say whether Pakistan had asked China to build the base at the port in Baluchistan province.
Islamabad is trying to deepen ties with Beijing as relations with the United States have come under strain following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this month.

I predicted this outcome. Our rhetorical abuse of Pakistan, as if they have no sovereignty, will come back to haunt us big time. It'll take a Republican president to correct Obama's disregard in that respect. Obama is lauded for drone killings, which are nothing more than a strategy to "look tought" but instead to avoid capturing Taliban/al Qaeda because if we did we'd have to follow through with either interrogation or court trials, further blowing his grand scheme out of the water.

 

[Mad Scientist]

But we had a "Republican President" who did almost the same things as Obama is doing now. What we need is a "Constitutional President" who won't ignore the Congress, the Courts and the Will of the People.

 

[American Horse]

But we had a "Republican President" who did almost the same things as Obama is doing now. What we need is a "Constitutional President" who won't ignore the Congress, the Courts and the Will of the People.

We can agree about both those phrases in quotes, however Bush was able to enlist Pakistan as an ally in the war against terror/Taliban/al Qaeda, and made the world safer that way and vis-a-vis atomic weapons. Things just got a whole lot more "hairy" with the mishandling of the take-down of Osama and all the talk-talk-talk subsequent to that.

 

[Mad Scientist]

But we had a "Republican President" who did almost the same things as Obama is doing now. What we need is a "Constitutional President" who won't ignore the Congress, the Courts and the Will of the People.

We can agree about both those phrases in quotes, however Bush was able to enlist Pakistan as an ally in the war against terror/Taliban/al Qaeda, and made the world safer that way and vis-a-vis atomic weapons. Things just got a whole lot more "hairy" with the mishandling of the take-down of Osama and all the talk-talk-talk subsequent to that.

You think Bush knew that Osama was in Pakistan the whole time?
Madeline Albright and John Kerry (Who served in Vietnam) claimed that Bush had Osama on ice and warned against rolling him out at the 2004 elections and using him as a political weapon.

 

[American Horse]

But we had a "Republican President" who did almost the same things as Obama is doing now. What we need is a "Constitutional President" who won't ignore the Congress, the Courts and the Will of the People.

We can agree about both those phrases in quotes, however Bush was able to enlist Pakistan as an ally in the war against terror/Taliban/al Qaeda, and made the world safer that way and vis-a-vis atomic weapons. Things just got a whole lot more "hairy" with the mishandling of the take-down of Osama and all the talk-talk-talk subsequent to that.

You think Bush knew that Osama was in Pakistan the whole time?
Madeline Albright and John Kerry (Who served in Vietnam) claimed that Bush had Osama on ice and warned against rolling him out at the 2004 elections and using him as a political weapon.

I do not. I don't even believe that higher ups in the Pak establishment knew that. I've heard Gates say that as well as Rumsfeld. The best place to hide is often in plain sight. We watch too much television, and believe that "everything' is known, and that is simply not the case.

We know (or should know) that what Albright said was merely political campaign rhetoric. We always knew that. I will say that I didn't think that Bush saw OBL as high priority; once he was taken down the steam would've come out of his policy for Iraq and the whole war on terror, because the Dems wouldl've demanded it.

 

[High_Gravity]

I really wish we could just be done with the whole region, Pakistan and Afghanistan, let China have them and throw billions of dollars into their ungrateful laps every year, fuck them.

 

[Jessica Blume]

Sorry it's not from MSNBC or Fox.
Pakistan wants China to build it a naval base.
www.dawn.com - Security Verification

Pakistan said on Saturday it wanted China to build it a naval base, in the latest sign of moves to strengthen ties with Beijing as relations with Washington falter.
The announcement from Pakistan’s defence minister came a day after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani returned from a four-day visit to China, Islamabad’s biggest arms supplier.
“We would be … grateful to the Chinese government if a naval base is … constructed at the site of Gwadar for Pakistan,” Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said in a statement, referring to a deep-water port in Pakistan’s southwest.
The statement did not say whether Pakistan had asked China to build the base at the port in Baluchistan province.
Islamabad is trying to deepen ties with Beijing as relations with the United States have come under strain following the killing of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan this month.

The lines are being drawn. But Americans don't care. The Kardashians are on!