Toolan: The Pakistanis aren’t helping

Yeah, I know it’s a total surprise that the Pakistanis aren’t pulling their weight against the very same people who are blowing up Pakistanis, too. Kristina Wong writes in the Washington Times that US military leaders are finally making public pronouncements about that fact;

“I know for a fact that drugs are moving out [of Afghanistan] through Pakistan and lethal aid is coming in on a regular basis,” [Marine CorpsMaj. Gen. John Toolan] said at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington.

“If I had XII Corps, if I had the Pakistani army support to at least conduct patrols around the border and limit movement across, that would really help. That’s been my focus, but [I] haven’t really been able to get that support,” he said.

Yet, they wonder why we accidentally blow up their outposts, while our troops are overwhelmed with the job of sealing the borders between the two countries. When the troops can’t get the intelligence and target designation help that they need from our supposed allies, what do they really expect?

At least the military dictatorship of Musharraf understood that helping US efforts against the Taliban was in his country’s best interest. But there’s no helping people who don’t want to be helped.

It’s obvious to me, a simple infantryman that karzai doesn’t want us to kill his enemies and now it’s clear that the Pakistanis don’t want us to stop the drug trade and arms trade through their country. So what are we still doing there?

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