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Pakistan’s stability is main goal, US

by asimepd | December 15, 2009 at 11:21 pm

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Vice President Joseph Biden says that Obama administration is focused on improving Pakistan’s stability, safeguarding its nuclear weapons program and defeating al-Qaida militants, but officials first must ensure that the Afghan government does not fail.

In an interview, Biden said that the United States would be in real trouble if the neighbouring Afghan government collapses and creates a power vacuum. He said it would be difficult to guess the response from countries such as Iraq, China or Russia. The vice president also praised Pakistan for its ongoing military campaign against Pakistani Taliban groups, but he said the country still is not doing enough.

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Hugh Askew

at 04:08 on December 16th, 2009

asimepd, I'm curious as to what the average person in Pakistan thinks about this. Any ideas?

YankeeJim

at 06:02 on December 16th, 2009

In an interview with Vice President Biden, YankeeJim would ask:

Mr. Vice President, why is it that the United States is always on the pointy end of such issues as instability in Pakistan, nation-building in Afghanistan, nation-recovery in Iraq. In a global village, would it not make sense to engage other world leaders in a collaborative approach?

[He might reply stating the we have so much more at stake, and want to tip the scale in our favor. You see, the Middle East is like dominoes ready to fall.]

But, Mr Biden, that is not a gloabl village veiw, is it. We have heard that dominoe talk before. The Middle East dominoes have been falling all along, and the result is not very favorable to the USA and free world. Perhaps we should change the game to Chinese Checkers.