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By Salman Mugsi • May 13th, 2009 •
Don’t bother to educate Mr. Zardari, as he knows that he is incapable and he is just doing his act when it is hot and malleable and he wants to stick there as long as possible. He practically begged Americans to grant him a longer stay in the anvil. His repetition of words “Our Democracy”, “My Democracy” and the marketing of his late wife’s slaying in Rawalpindi has exposed his weakness and even Americans have become irritated beyond control upon this trip.
Where Zardari forgot to smile and to express his desire to hug “Hillary” during this visit to the land of maters, he also forgot that he was the president of people who cherish their freedom, dignity and respect. Zardari knows the acclaim of his wife and though he tries to raise higher than his wife, he tries to pitch her name to impress upon the Americans. The US Congress Committee has approved $1.9 billion in additional assistance to Pakistan, but has made it clear to the president Zardari that he won’t be getting it directly and there are some very tough conditions attached to it.
Reuters has summed it up quite nicely:
There was no backslapping from President Barack Obama for the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Wednesday, two countries that represent perhaps the United States’ most urgent foreign policy headache. Obama took a pragmatic, arms-length approach to dealing with both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, stressing support for their democratically elected governments but avoiding becoming wrapped up in personalities. “It is a strategy born in part from having seen that personalities had limits in President George W Bush’s friendships with Karzai and Zardari’s predecessor, Pervez Musharraf…. And the Obama administration is not limiting its Pakistani contacts to Zardari, the widower of slain Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It is also talking to opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, among others,” and stressed: “After their meeting at the White House on Wednesday, Obama was careful to stick to diplomatic language in his message across that both the Afghan and Pakistani presidents need to do more to confront the threat posed by the Taliban and al Qaeda.
People at home and abroad have grown fed up of Zardari’s pitching of Benazir Bhutto’s name to garner sympathy, support, and aid. They know want him either to deliver or to quit with his pack of looters.
http://www.pakspectator.com/zardari-must-stop-marketing-benazirs-assassination/
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