The article from al jazzier I am going to post is about the latest wickileeks release of classified documents of conversations between US and Pakistan officials, civilian and the military.
It suggests that what the Pakistanis say publicly is not what they say to us privately. I personally don't have a problem with this. I recognize as we do , the Pakistanis have their own political problems.
They have a large group of citizens who are militant religious types, don't care for western and particularly US intervention in their country. Many support in theory the Taliban who are at war with the civilian and Military organizations of the country , have cause thousands of death in their country, both civilians and the military, and would like to replace the current government with a strict religious leaning government and possible stricter interpretation of Shia laws .
They, the government and the military have to take these groups seriously and to be shown to be cooperating with Western forces, with us particularly put the military and th civilian government in a tough spot.
When wickileaks releases these classified documents it does great harm to us , to our Allie, putting them in a tough spot and does nothing to help in the war against terror .
I feel it is NOT my right to know everything..the "Right to Know " is important to uphold, other wise the harm of decimation can be the same as losing many battles on the battle field, even worse.
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Features
Pakistan and the US: A too-close embrace?
New leaked US embassy cables reveal further evidence of states' dysfunctional relationship.
Asad Hashim 03 Jun 2011 14:40
In one cable, the Pakistani army chief requests 'continuous Predator coverage' of the tribal areas [GALLO/GETTY]
"It is of little surprise that in the weeks following the killing of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda’s leader, in a Pakistani military garrison town, the Pakistani relationship with the United States has been described using various analogies of romantic dysfunction: as an abusive relationship, as one partner cheating on another, and as a failing marriage where the partners stay together for the sake of the children.
The children, in this case, being various distinct (but linked) violent, armed groups that are waging war on both parties, separately and at times in concert.
But if the relationship between these states really is a romantic entanglement gone wrong, then the latest batch of US embassy cables to be leaked by the whistleblowing website Wikileaks is like having access to the email and text message exchanges between the two, revealing the many faces of the partnership.
In short, the cables show that while the Pakistani government wears a certain face in public, rejecting US missile strikes on its territory and military cooperation on Pakistani soil with aggressive rhetoric about sovereignty, in private, both military and civilian officials approve (or "acquiesce", to use a term from one of the cables) to both of these.
The result is a relationship that is one thing in the confines of closed door meetings and quite distinctly another in the harsh light of day. There is repeated reference in the cables, released through the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, to the potential fallout of any of the topics of conversation (from US drone strikes to the presence of US Special Forces providing Pakistani paramilitary troops with intelligence support) becoming public: an understanding that were the private face to impinge on the public, it would have to retaliate.
First, however, the facts.
The faces of co-operation
The most obviously contentious issue when it comes to the relationship between the two countries is that of the repeated violations of Pakistan's sovereignty, as that country describes it, that are US missile strikes launched by Predator drone aircraft in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Previously released cables have indicated that there is indeed tacit support from the Pakistani government and military for these strikes, even as the same officials who agree in private condemn them in public.
The latest batch of cables further corroborates those claims"
