Pakistan's intelligence service (ISI) and its civilian and military leadership have been playing blind man's bluff and we have been paying billions of dollars per year
To our illustrious leaders in the White House, State Department, CIA and the Pentagon, it is time to face up to the US relationship with Pakistan and answer the question, "What about Pakistan now and what to do?" It is apparent to many of us with intelligence and military background that Pakistan's intelligence service (ISI) and its civilian and military leadership have been playing blind man's bluff and we have been paying billions of dollars per year to be in the game! Not a prudent strategy and use of taxpayer's dollars when we are in debt up to our eyeballs! And for what in return, I ask?
Fox Interview:5/06/2011
ISI managed to hide Osama bin Laden since he fled Tora Bora as they continue to harbor and support the Taliban and play some chess games with Iran - having allowed Osama bin Laden to transit for years now between Iran and Pakistan. What a great deal for Osama. At the same time ISI developed a multitude of anti-Indian terror organizations as well as supported jihadist terror operations against innocents in India.
Washington leaders (?) continue in a delusional manner to function as a non-cohesive national security team that is unfocused. Information from government sources and inside the White House is that the President and Valerie Jarrett were very troubled to reach a decision to terminate Bin Laden and that credit has to go to Leon Panetta and the CIA as well as our military leaders to force the hand of Obama to proceed with the mission. That does not surprise me.
Former Pakistani President Pervez stated "that it's a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan," after bin Laden's killing was announced. "American troops coming across the border and took action in one of our towns, Abbottabad, is not acceptable to the people of Pakistan." Musharraf's comments are ironic given that he personally made a deal with General McChrystal to allow US Special Ops Forces to cross into Pakistan from Afghanistan to target bin Laden or other Al Qaeda leaders in the past. The so-called "hot pursuit" agreement was predicated on Pakistan's ability to deny it, had given the US forces permission to enter Pakistan.
It is imperative that we reserve the right for US forces to operate unilaterally in any country across the globe in pursuit of proven high value terrorist targets. The Obama administration's expansion of US Special Operations activities globally has been authorized under a classified order dating back to the Bush administration. Originally signed in early 2004 by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, is known as the "AQN ExOrd," or Al Qaeda Network Execute Order. The AQN ExOrd was intended to cut through bureaucratic and legal processes, allowing US Special Operating Forces to move into denied areas or countries beyond the official battle zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. Gen. David Petraeus, who is poised to become director of the CIA, expanded and updated that order in late 2009. SEAL Team Six also carried out the operation that killed the Somali pirates that hijacked the Maersk Alabama in April 2009. They flew from a discreet US base in Manda Bay, Kenya.
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Paul E. Vallely , MG US Army (Ret), is Chairman of Stand Up America USA. Paul’s latest book is “Operation Sucker Punch – Blood for Our Future”. He is the co-author of “Endgame- A blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror”.
