When I was in the seventh grade, I had this huge crush on one of the basketball players at school. He was a little older than me, but I didn’t really care.
I told my best friend at the time how much I ‘loved’ this boy and I would do ‘anything’ if he would ask me to ‘go with him’ (where, I have no idea … but everyone was ‘going with someone’) …
My best friend told her brother who proceeded to tell the basketball player. And then, she wrote it in a note to another friend. The note was caught by our principal who pinned it up on the bulletin board. Everyone laughed. And I came to the conclusion right then that …
Backstabbing friends really, really suck.
It’s a pretty elementary analogy right? But we all have had things happen to us that have made us more guarded with who we trust and who we ultimately believe has our best interests at heart.
That’s why, when I read the article in The Financial Times, revealing Pakistan had indeed allowed China to examine the stealth helicopter that crashed during the UBL raid, it didn’t surprise me too much – although it does make me angry.
Why are they smiling?
On May 2, The US Navy SEALs successfully killed Al Qaeda leader Usama Bin Laden in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, hideout. The SEALs flew into Pakistan in helicopters equipped with top-secret stealth technology. One of the advanced choppers was rendered inoperable after it crashed into the wall of the terror chief’s compound. The SEALs attempted to destroy the helicopter, but parts of the helicopter, including its tail, remained intact.
Obama ordered the SEALs to complete the raid without the permission of the Pakistani government, further complicating the already tense diplomatic relationship between the two countries (read more on raid in the FOX NEWS article).
The Pakistani Government, who has resounded their friendship and cooperation to the U.S. from their rolling sandy hills, allowed China to come in and take photographs as well as touch and examine components of the nearly destructed chopper.
I think they see it as OK, since we invaded a compound in their country without permission and killed the most wanted man in the WORLD. They probably figured one backstab deserves another.
Pakistan is a dangerous, corrupt, densely populated Muslim country — that has nukes. Their leaders are duplicitous. We supported Musharraf because he was the lesser evil — it was better to keep a military strongman in power because it ensured their nukes would be under greater control and hopefully not fall into the hands of the radicals.
They who has long had strong military ties to China allowed one of our top threats to rummage through our garbage – even though we rid the world of the worst type of terrorist refuse imaginable. Quickly, decisively and without collateral damage, we took care of business; and this is how a government, ‘friendly’ with ours, repays the favor.
It’s a backstabbing of the worst kind and one with world-wide repercussions if we don’t answer swiftly. As one of my friends put it ‘If your neighbor let his dog sh** in your yard, would you buy him breakfast every morning?’ Of course not! More than likely, you’d build a fence – or buy a big-ass dog to bite the head off the offending poodle.
But Pakistan will probably get a diplomatic, yet firm phone call from Hillary Clinton and Obama will have one of his aides write a strongly-worded memo he’ll sign along with the stacks of other things on his desk. That’s it. No repercussions … and we’ll still send ’em a big fat check to help them ‘stimulate’ their economy and outfit more terrorists with weapons. Damn, we’re great global neighbors.
One might say the fact the helicopter was so damaged, the Chinese/Pakistani show-and-tell couldn’t possibly render any type of threatening result. But does it really matter? The fact Pakistan dared to color outside the lines in this matter shows we, as America – the Greatest Country on the Planet – have lost a foothold in instilling fear in our frienemies. We’ve lost respect in being a country who means what we say and basically, a country that should be scared of us … isn’t.
Pakistan went in, removed the chopper from the UBL compound even though we’d requested it returned to us. They deliberately took it to a secret location AND went against the wishes of a country that used to be feared and respected for its military might under previous administrations. And did exactly the opposite of what was requested.
What does this tell us?
It saddens me to say we’ve lost a foothold in this global community and obviously lost respect as a country of promise and action. Pakistan did exactly the opposite of what we requested because they don’t think we will do anything about it … and I am sorry to say, this administration probably will not.
President Obama, in his desire to make everyone feel welcome in America and in his absurd wish to play nice with everyone has caused a country of military might and power to actually be more of a laughing stock than the powerhouse we once were.
Our military, still full of the bravest, most amazing men and women our country can offer are still top-notch, but their leadership from above can easily drag them down to a level of ineffectiveness.
So we will continue to ignore global slights, we will continue to see our once-admired values fade further and further away and we’ll continue to see our country’s individuality and might further meld into what is today’s global melting pot of conformity.
A small country, who has been deceitful, and little if no help to us and has thwarted efforts at almost every turn in pursuit of our military target – has slapped us in the face and disrespected us (not to mention, possibly endangered our national security and our military).
Yeah, backstabbing friends really do suck. And the writing is all over the wall. The question is, how are we going to change it.
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