“Pakistan by joining the US after 9/11 committed one of the biggest blunders…I think the Pakistani government should not have pledged what they could not deliver.”
I agree. Pakistan is no friend or ally of the United States. It has never aided the defense against the global jihad. It should not receive a penny in U.S. aid.
“Joining war on terror was biggest blunder, says Imran,” Daily Times, September 24, 2019 (thanks to Henry):
Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that Pakistan’s decision to join the US-led war on terror was the biggest blunder in the country’s history.
He addressed an event at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) think tank in New York on Monday.
Answering a question regarding former US Defense Secretary James Mattis’ remark that he considered Pakistan to be “the most dangerous” among all countries he had dealt with, Prime Minister Imran said: “I do not think James Mattis fully understands why Pakistan became radicalized.
He explained, “In the 1980s, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan, helped by the United States, organized the resistance to the Soviets. And the resistance was organized by the Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) training these militants who were invited from all over the Muslim world to do jihad against the Soviet Union.”
“And so we created these militant groups to fight the Soviets. […] Jihadis were heroes then. Come 1989, Soviets leave Afghanistan, the US packs up and leaves Afghanistan […] and we were left with these groups,” he added.
“Then comes 9/11, and Pakistan again joins the US in the war on terror and now we are required to go after these groups as terrorists. They were indoctrinated that fighting foreign occupation in jihad but now when the US arrived in Afghanistan, it was supposed to be terrorism. So Pakistan took a real battering in this,” he said, adding that Pakistan should have stayed neutral in the conflict.”
Joining war on terror was biggest blunder, says Imran
“Pakistan by joining the US after 9/11 committed one of the biggest blunders,” he said, noting that 70,000 Pakistanis had died in the ensuing violence and the country lost hundreds of billions in the economy. “I think the Pakistani government should not have pledged what they could not deliver.”…