{"id":23479,"date":"2011-05-18T09:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23479"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T13:15:26","slug":"pakistanafghanistan-and-harry-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23479","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\/Afghanistan and Reid\/Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Britain makes preparations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/campaigns\/our_boys\/3586219\/PM-450-troops-to-withdraw-from-Afghanistan.html\">withdraw troops from Afghanistan<\/a>, US helicopters scuffle with Pakistani troops along the border between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/c.gigcount.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEzMDU3MjI3NTQ4MTUmcHQ9MTMwNTcyMjc1OTc2OSZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZF8x\/MzYyNTI2OF9Db25mbGljdG9udGhlUGFraXN*YW4tQWZnaGFuaXN*YW5Cb3JkZXImZz*yJm89N2FiZDIwZTgwNjcwNGM4NmE1ZjZk\/NzQwNWI2MDE2OTEmb2Y9MA==.gif\" \/><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,124,0\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" id=\"ABCESNWID\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&#038;configId=406732&#038;clipId=13625268&#038;gig_lt=1305722754815&#038;gig_pt=1305722759769&#038;gig_g=2\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" flashvars=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&#038;configId=406732&#038;clipId=13625268&#038;gig_lt=1305722754815&#038;gig_pt=1305722759769&#038;gig_g=2\" name=\"ABCESNWID\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>While the US forces trade lead with Pakistan, Harry Reid, the king of mis-timing, claims that <a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.cloud.clearpathhosting.com\/news\/article\/majority-leader-reid-pakistan-aid-now-is\">now is not the time to get tough on Pakistan<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Reid said, \u201cI think that we need to be&#8211;I don\u2019t think we have to be those that are apologizing for anything that Pakistan did or criticizing them even though there\u2019s plenty to apologize to them&#8211;apologize about some of the things they\u2019ve done and to criticize them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, we should apologize to Pakistan because we&#8217;ve been giving them billions of dollars to help us fight a war&#8230;now they&#8217;re firing on our troops with that aid, and hardly fighting that war to a successful conclusion. I guess he figures that the time to get tough with Pakistan was during the Bush Administration.<\/p>\n<p>And also, while the US and Pakistani forces trade ammunition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calcuttanews.net\/story\/783967\/ht\/John-Kerry-makes-agreements-with-Pakistan\">John Kerry is claiming that Pakistan is committed to strengthening relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/05\/is-pakistan-still-a-friend.html\">Blackfive<\/a>, Jim Hanson tells Russia Today that Pakistan is the best friend money can buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Britain makes preparations to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, US helicopters scuffle with Pakistani troops along &hellip; <a title=\"Pakistan\/Afghanistan and Reid\/Kerry\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23479\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pakistan\/Afghanistan and Reid\/Kerry<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}