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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the United States needs to take a deep breath before considering ending military aid to Pakistan, because the last thing America wants is a failed Muslim state with nuclear weapons.
In an interview with Fox News, Rumsfeld also said it would be terrible if radical Islamists ruled Pakistan. We ought to take a deep breath and recognize it would make us feel good for about five minutes if we cut off aid to Pakistan and recognize the relationship with that country is complex, it is important and it is imperfect, Rumsfeld said. We ought to be willing to ask the tough questions, to do it in a measured tone of voice, and not react and say cut off all the money, theyre bad, they are double dealing.
The reality is it is a Muslim country with nuclear weapons the last thing we want is that to be a failed state, Rumsfeld said. It would be a terrible situation if radical Islamists took over that country.
Rumsfeld said he had heard no evidence that anyone on any level of the Pakistani government had information as to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, and it would have been easy for the killed al-Qaida leader to hide in plain sight.
You can go across the Potomac drive up the road, look at those gated estates, we dont know what is going on there it is a mile or two from the Pentagon. It is perfectly possible to hide in plain sight it is a rush to judgment to say they must have known, Rumsfeld said. I would not want anyone in or out of the Pakistan government to know where I was if one other person knows, somebody else is going to know, and then somebody else. My guess is he had a very tight support network of a very limited number of people, one or two maybe outside, who managed the support for him, he said
US doesnt want failed N-Pakistan, says Rumsfeld | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online
In an interview with Fox News, Rumsfeld also said it would be terrible if radical Islamists ruled Pakistan. We ought to take a deep breath and recognize it would make us feel good for about five minutes if we cut off aid to Pakistan and recognize the relationship with that country is complex, it is important and it is imperfect, Rumsfeld said. We ought to be willing to ask the tough questions, to do it in a measured tone of voice, and not react and say cut off all the money, theyre bad, they are double dealing.
The reality is it is a Muslim country with nuclear weapons the last thing we want is that to be a failed state, Rumsfeld said. It would be a terrible situation if radical Islamists took over that country.
Rumsfeld said he had heard no evidence that anyone on any level of the Pakistani government had information as to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, and it would have been easy for the killed al-Qaida leader to hide in plain sight.
You can go across the Potomac drive up the road, look at those gated estates, we dont know what is going on there it is a mile or two from the Pentagon. It is perfectly possible to hide in plain sight it is a rush to judgment to say they must have known, Rumsfeld said. I would not want anyone in or out of the Pakistan government to know where I was if one other person knows, somebody else is going to know, and then somebody else. My guess is he had a very tight support network of a very limited number of people, one or two maybe outside, who managed the support for him, he said
US doesnt want failed N-Pakistan, says Rumsfeld | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online
