Well, I assume things from what I go through on Internet, including this forum.
Just have a look around and you will see how many Pakistani members, moderators and think tanks think USA should go back from Pakistan. Also, the all time favorite - Zaid Hamid thinks so. I have seen many videos in which common people express anger against USA. But I accept that I may be wrong if the only the videos having such views were uploaded.
Please correct me if I am on wrong path. But at the same time, I hope you have the explanation for Stealth thanking every anti-American post!
Regards, Balance.
Stealth, and a few other members here, represent half of Pakistan for you? And how did you think that wanting the US to get out of Pakistan is equivalent to the PA fighting the US' war?
Should I judge "half of" India by the comments of a few Indian members on this board who live for Pakistan's destruction?
Please explain.
‘We are not contracted troops for others to assess our performance.’
OK, on the one hand Pakistan tells the West, "Give us the tools and we'll finish the job." and on the other hand it tells them, "You can give us the tools, but you're not allowed to care about what we do with them."
That is one way to put it. Another way to put it is, "give us the tools to fight this problem, the problem you brought on us by invading our neighbors without planning, and sit back and reap the rewards of our fighting men and civilians dying because of what you've done". When, 8 years after the war began, your President has the need to explain a "new" strategy, and your highest ranking Officer in Afghanistan has to say "this is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end", then surely, you have no right to complain if we say let us do our job our way.
You talk like you haven't benefited from our fight in our Western region. Well, those in the know, those who you trust you to win this war, will never deny that fact. Your President, your Chief in Afghanistan, even the head of your prime intelligence agency have said openly that Afghanistan cannot be won without Pakistan's support. The quote "CIA gets it's money's worth from the ISI", I believe, explains it rather well.
And yet, a disturbing majority of your country thinks that you've been providing us with charity all these years. I don't know what would give them this idea, except, oh yeah, that's what I heard on Fox the other day. Some stupid "van Venter" lady claiming "we've been giving them billions in aid with a few strings attached and they still are unwilling to help". Yeah, wanting full access to our nuclear program is just "strings attached".