See, I just posted the excerpt that you demanded from another fellow member here and tried to draw a conclusion when many people said that there was no threat.
If there was no threat by USA, why does Musharraf mention it so clearly in his book. There is no translation error and no editorial error here. Let's not squirm just because it may be uncomfortable.
Bush threatened to bomb Pakistan, says Musharraf | World news | The Guardian
The Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday.
In an interview to be aired on CBS television this weekend Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, said the threat was delivered by the assistant secretary of state, Richard Armitage, in conversations with Pakistan's intelligence director.
"The intelligence director told me that (Mr Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the stone age'," Gen Musharraf was quoted as saying. The revelation that the US used extreme pressure to secure Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror arrived at a time of renewed unease in the US about its frontline ally.
Gen Musharraf told CBS he was stunned at the bluntness of the US approach in the aftermath of the attacks. "I think it was a very rude remark," he said. But he yielded to the request.
Funny how Indians love to repeat leftie and commie and Islamist propaganda and still claim to be "secular".
See, let's not link individual views and facts to such issues. We are just discussing facts here.
FYI. In the book if you read it with proper context, Musharraf is just telling what he heard via second hand. Lot of it got lost in translation and the editor.
ISI director Mahmood was in DC when 9/11 happened.
He heard American planners saying "We give you money if you are with us, and we bomb you if you are supporting terrorists AGAINST us".
This message was not just given to Pakistan. The whole world got the same message.
This issue is specific to Pakistan. The Taliban government and Pakistan were in the front-line for obvious reasons.
Taliban for sheltering AQ and Pakistan for being the biggest patron of the Taliban. There is nothing here which is not a well known fact.
Indians got the same message and they starting jumping up and down "Pick me, Pick me, take my bases, take everything, pick me, pick me.
Americans just laughed at Indians syaing what the f do we need from you. The war is in Afghanistan. Just look at the damn map.
That's an interesting choice of words and an interesting way of looking at it.
See, no doubt Pakistan was (and is) blessed for being the neighbor of Afghanistan. India definitely shared interests with USA in crushing the Talibs and it was only natural that we offered any help towards that.
Of course we knew that logistically Pakistan was a better choice. still India offering the help resulted in Pakistan's bargaining position going down steeply and it was forced to do what we wanted.
It was as simple as that. Nothing more to read in it.
We need Pakistan as it is the only country that can provide us logistics and other help like it has done for the past 30 years of Afghan war.
Well, one way of looking at it is that Pakistan has profited at the Afghans' expense. Especially your Generals. Their pockets were lined and their armory bulged with the latest weapons, every time Afghans died in their millions.
Did it help the Afghans or average Pakistanis? Your guess is as good as mine.
There is no denying Musharraf had to tread a fine line. There were few black sheep Islamists generals like Hameed-a Bulbul gul that could cause problems for Pakistan.
Luckily it turned out that 99.99% serving generals and officers of 600,000 force were going to do what was needed for the country.
The support for Taliban was the official Pakistani policy for years.
Pakistan was forced to change direction after 9/11.
However some Indians out of sheer madness will continue repeating stuff out of context, just to spite Pakistan
even if they have to talk like Islamist $hit Talib-b@stards
See,we need to able to see these facts dispassionately. There is no spite here, just some obvious facts that we all saw happening with our eyes.
peace to you my man. peace to you.
Peace to you as well sir.
