Sovereignty comes with responsibility: Clinton tells Pakistan

[Zebra]

Agencies : Washington, Sat Sep 22 2012, 13:03 hrs

The US supports Pakistan's sovereignty, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, reminding Islamabad that all sovereign nations carry certain obligations like preventing threats to neighbours and the international community. "We support Pakistan's sovereignty, but we are clear that all sovereign nations carry certain obligations: to protect the human rights of their citizens, to control their territory, to prevent threats to their neighbours and the international community," Clinton told reporters in a joint press availability with her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.

Clinton's statement came as Khar during her current Washington trip called for an end to the drone strikes alleging that they violate Pakistan's sovereignty.

The US has ruled out stopping its highly successful drone programme which targets terrorists operating inside the Pakistan tribal areas.

"One thing that does come in the way of us being able to inspire confidence in Pakistanis is the use of unilateral strikes such as drone strikes. Because what that does is, being illegal, being counter-productive -- most importantly what it does is that it makes it again your war and not our war," Khar said.

"It is important that this remain something that the Pakistanis are striving for their own future, and that the Pakistanis should be allowed to look at it that way. We expect from the US a deeper understanding of Pakistan's priorities, Pakistan's concerns, Pakistan's constraints also because I think sometimes we are given an overload of capacity." ".....When drone strikes are used, the message that is sent to the Pakistani people is that of United States unilateralism, which is not what it should be and which is not the partnership that we are trying to build," she said. Clinton said there is still much to be done......

full article: Sovereignty comes with responsibility: Clinton tells Pakistan - Indian Express

 

[Ray]

She is casting pearls before swine - as the metaphor goes!

 

[Blackwater]

Agencies : Washington, Sat Sep 22 2012, 13:03 hrs

The US supports Pakistan's sovereignty, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, reminding Islamabad that all sovereign nations carry certain obligations like preventing threats to neighbours and the international community. "We support Pakistan's sovereignty, but we are clear that all sovereign nations carry certain obligations: to protect the human rights of their citizens, to control their territory, to prevent threats to their neighbours and the international community," Clinton told reporters in a joint press availability with her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.

Clinton's statement came as Khar during her current Washington trip called for an end to the drone strikes alleging that they violate Pakistan's sovereignty.

The US has ruled out stopping its highly successful drone programme which targets terrorists operating inside the Pakistan tribal areas.

"One thing that does come in the way of us being able to inspire confidence in Pakistanis is the use of unilateral strikes such as drone strikes. Because what that does is, being illegal, being counter-productive -- most importantly what it does is that it makes it again your war and not our war," Khar said.

"It is important that this remain something that the Pakistanis are striving for their own future, and that the Pakistanis should be allowed to look at it that way. We expect from the US a deeper understanding of Pakistan's priorities, Pakistan's concerns, Pakistan's constraints also because I think sometimes we are given an overload of capacity." ".....When drone strikes are used, the message that is sent to the Pakistani people is that of United States unilateralism, which is not what it should be and which is not the partnership that we are trying to build," she said. Clinton said there is still much to be done......

full article: Sovereignty comes with responsibility: Clinton tells Pakistan - Indian Express

:taunt1::taunt1:

 

[W.G.Ewald]

The US supports Pakistan's sovereignty, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, reminding Islamabad that all sovereign nations carry certain obligations like preventing threats to neighbours and the international community.

How ironic she lectures Pakistan but apologizes to Libya days after the US ambassador is murdered in Benghazi.

 

[The Messiah]

How ironic she lectures Pakistan but apologizes to Libya days after the US ambassador is murdered in Benghazi.

She is right in this instance.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

She is right in this instance.

I suppose she will apologize to Pakistan if Richard Olson is murdered there?

US Senate approves ambassadors to Iraq, Pakistan | DAWN.COM

 

[LETHALFORCE]

Hillary is promising things that she can't deliver-stopping drone strikes when Haqqani's
are now labelled a terrorist organization?

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Innocence of Mrs. Clinton - The New York Sun

Secretary of State Clinton went before the cameras to "take a moment," as she put it, "to address the video circulating on the internet that has led to these protests in a number of countries. Let me state very clearly, and I hope it is obvious, that the United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video." But try this for a thought experiment. What would be the position of Mrs. Clinton, of our government, of our courts, if the United States government had turned out to have had something to do with the video? What, just for the sake of argument, could it do if it had subsidized the making and distribution of "Innocence of the Muslims"?

Well, recall what happened here in New York in 1999, when the Brooklyn Museum put up a now-notorious art show called "Sensation." It featured a painting that mocked the image of the Christian saint, Mary, mother of Jesus. The painting depicted Mary surrounded by photos of genitalia cut out from an off-color magazine, and the artist, Chris Ofili, splattered his painting's image of Mary with elephant dung, which he had used in other works. The painting became known as the Elephant Dung Splattered Madonna. It was so offensive to New Yorkers that their elected representatives, Mayor Giuliani and the city council, tried to . . . . to do what?

It turns out they didn't riot. They didn't fire any grenades. They didn't burn down any embassies or museums. They did, in typically civilized fashion, try to stop their funding of the Brooklyn Museum. But they got nowhere. In the event, a federal court forbade the city taxpayers from halting their funding of the Brooklyn Museum, no matter how much it offended their religious sensibilities. Having started funding the museum, the hapless New Yorkers were prohibited from cutting back their funding unless they also cut back on the funding of the other museums in the city that didn't offend them.

This is the meaning the genius of a federal judge in the case discovered in the First Amendment, which forbids Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion or restricting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. And guess who defended the proposition that the city's taxpayers should be forced to continue funding the religious sacrilege? A senate candidate named Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, according to a dispatch of the BBC, said "It's not appropriate to penalize and punish an institution such as the Brooklyn Museum." All we can say is that we hope whoever made "Innocence of Muslims" stays away from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

[farhan_9909]

lol
America is talking about responsibilities

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Obama to Condemn Christian Filmmaker Before United Nations

Not only are we seeing the White House and State Department call more attention to the Mohammed-mocking "Innocence of Muslims" than any terrorist network ever could've hoped for, but the President's indefensible scapegoating of the film and filmmaker to draw attention and blame away from U.S. security failures apparently knows no bounds.

Next week, Obama will denounce the film in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly:

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor previews the president's speech to the UN General Assembly next week:

"UNGA always provides an opportunity for the President to put the international situation in context, and to put forward a vision of US leadership. I would certainly expect the President to address the recent unrest in the Muslim world, and the broader context of the democratic transitions in the Arab World."

"As he has in recent days, the President will make it clear that we reject the views in this video, while also underscoring that violence is never acceptable[.]

My God, between the media and the Obama White House, we are finally witnessing Orwell's "1984" blossom to life.

 

[Blackwater]

lol
America is talking about responsibilities

yes, she is, as thakedar of islam , she is right u