Pakistanis Get Blunt With Secretary Clinton ‘We’ve Been Fighting Your War’
In Pakistan today, Secretary Clinton greatly backtracked from her comments yesterday about the Pakistani government’s knowledge of terrorist activity as she faced much greater opposition from the people of Pakistan today.
Whereas Afghanistan has been reeling from the horror of drone attacks for years now, the people of Pakistan are now taking the United States to task for the Pakistani victims of airstrikes.
The comments of the man referred to at the end of the article are truly problematic, because in the end the war on terror is as much about the entire world, including Pakistan as it is about the United States of America. This is something that Pakistan must realize, especially with last year’s developments in Swat and continual Taliban presence in Pakistan:
During an interview with Clinton broadcast live in Pakistan with several prominent female TV anchors, before a predominantly female audience of several hundred, one member of the audience said the Predator attacks amount to “executions without trial” for those killed.
Another asked Clinton how she would define terrorism.
“Is it [terrorism] the killing of people in drone attacks?” she asked. That woman then asked if Clinton considers drone attacks and bombings like the one that killed more than 100 civilians in the city of Peshawar earlier this week to both be acts of terrorism.
“No, I do not,” Clinton replied.
Another man told her bluntly: “Please forgive me, but I would like to say we‘ve been fighting your war.”
Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger At Predator Drone Attacks [Huffington Post]