Restoring the Sacred

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Another Ally Abandoned

Pakistan

In an interview at the Journal's offices this week in New York, Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi minced no words about the impact of a U.S. withdrawal before the Taliban is defeated. "This will be disastrous," he said. "You will lose credibility. . . Who is going to trust you again?"

That's from an editorial in the Wall Street Journal today. If the president doesn't want to listen to his generals, maybe he'll think about this. Here's a link to the editorial:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574443352072071822.html