Bloom is off the rose

USAToday reports that Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, decided to get tough with Pakistan one of our strongest allies in the near east;

“I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. “Maybe that’s the case. Maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know.”

I wonder how tough she’ll be when she talks to Iran – you know someone with whom we should be tough. She defended her comments on television this morning;

“I wanted to get that out on the table, because the Pakistanis have talked about a trust deficit and it’s a two-way street,” Clinton said in an interview shown on NBC’s “Today Show.” “We have questions, they have questions.”

Yeah, because at this point neither side knows how much they can trust each other. The Pakistanis don’t want to hang their collective neck out when they know that the US Left will pull the rug out from under them at any minute for no good reason other than their feelings.

Over the last few days, I’ve watched Clinton get tough with the Afghans and the Pakistanis, but they tread lightly around Iran and Korea…you know, the folks that want to wipe us out.

Clinton was asked about American commitment to the war against terror;

“What guarantee,” the woman asked, “can Americans give Pakistan that we can now trust you — not you but, like, the Americans this time — of your sincerity and that you guys are not going to betray us like the Americans did in the past when they wanted to destabilize the Russians?”

Clinton responded that the question was a “fair criticism” and that the U.S. did not follow through in the way it should have. “It’s difficult to go forward if we’re always looking in the rearview mirror,” said Clinton, on the second day of a three-day visit, her first to Pakistan as secretary of State.

Well, that’s not an answer. That’s not reassuring. It tells me that this administration will reevaluate their commitment on a daily basis – probably using polls. Like Clinton’s husband did with Haiti, Somalia…and Afghanistan. Oh, sorry…I looked through that rearview mirror again.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Foreign Policy, Terror War