Pakistan asks Afghanistan to distance itself from United States, Afghan officials say

[Keith Bee]

Source: Washington Post

KABUL — When Pakistan’s prime minister visited Kabul this month, he spoke grandly to the public of an enduring friendship between neighbors and his country’s commitment to help Afghans in the grinding war with the Taliban.

But in private meetings, Yousaf Raza Gillani and the leaders of Pakistan’s military and intelligence service offered a startling proposal for cooperation: The Afghan government should distance itself from the United States and seek new allies, particularly China, according to current and former Afghan officials with knowledge of the meeting.

Gillani read to President Hamid Karzai from a paper outlining Pakistan’s view that the U.S. military strategy had no prospect for success, that its troops antagonized the region and that the Afghan government should avoid any agreement that allows long-term U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, according to the Afghans.

Because of the growing fiscal problems in the United States, Gillani argued, America was a power in decline, one without the ability to support Afghanistan and Pakistan in the future, and Afghans should look “for alternative allies,” a senior Afghan official said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pakistan-asks-afghanistan-to-distance-itself-from-united-states-afghan-officials-say/2011/04/25/AFHHUmyE_story.html?hpid=z2

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We have no allies there. Why can't we just get the hell out?

[Historic NY]

1. In other words America is not going to continue to be sugar daddy...

okay pack up the dog & pony show.