where they live, attacking across the border, specifically, hakani group, until we get proper answers to that, i can t support any longer the economic aid portion of the pakistan aid pack damage here is what worries me, senator. the pakistan has a nuclear arsenal, 100 nuclear bombs, who knows, how many. if the u.s. were to completely sever its relationship or walk away from pakistan, i would be very worried about that nuclear arsenal at least some of it getting into the wrong hands. i agree with you. we should be worried. we should have a positive relationship with pakistan. it has to be a would-way street. it can t just be that they go after terrorists who attack targets in pakistan while knowingly allowing other terrorists to have a safe haven in pakistan who use that safe haven to attack us across the boarder in afghanistan. that has got to end. if it doesn t we have to find ways of letting pakistan know
there is an insurgence of extremism in this case, into raps which does not bode well for its future. a what does this tell us about america s chief concern which is the ability of the pakistani government, the pakistani army to really take on the the extremists who are holed up in north waziristan, who are al qaeda, the hakani group, all of the major terrorist outfits who are destabilizing afghanistan, pakistan, but so far the army never wanted to go there, because it seemed too big a step? looking at all this, i assume this is a substantial blow to this strategy. i think the army has always been reluctant to move against fellow muslims and having to fight fellow muslims in one s own homeland, it s mind-set is not geared for that if it were to go to north waziristan, it would have to convince the
extremists who are holed up in north waziristan, who are al qaeda, the hakani group, all of the major terrorist outfits who are destabilizing afte ining af pakistan, but so far the army never wanted to go there, because it seemed too big a step? looking at this, this is a substantial blow to this strategy. i think the army has always been reluctant to move against fellow muslims and having to fight fellow muslims in one s own homeland, it s mind-set is not geared for that if it were to go to north waziristan, it would have to convince the public that it wasn t at america s behest but in pakistan s own national interests, and that s a tall order to convince people over here that you are not going in there to do america a favor, but you re going in there because
government going to say about that? the hakani network blamed as far as i understand for the murder of those cia officers in afghanistan, linked to al qaeda certainly, but they re not seen as an anethma in pakistan and afghanistan as we see them so if the afghans want to talk to them will we stop them? we have vital national security interests in these countries. we ve got almost 100,000 troops in the country and more coming. we have a legitimate role to play in these decisions. and the hakani group is killing americans. they have shown no interest in meeting our red lines on what they have to do, give up their weapons, renounce al qaeda, reintegrate into society, accept the constitution. so for the leadership of the hakani group to participate in some kind of thing like you talked about, a political settlement in your phrase, that strikes me as a bridge too far. but the rank and file people who fight are often very misguided
taliban. then you have the pakistani taliban i just mentioned. then you have the l.e.t., the group that targets india, which caused the mumbai bombing. then you have last but definitely not least the separate group of terrorists called the hakani network which i know you heard on your trip to afghanistan is the group that is, that goes in from the eastern part of afghanistan right into kabul and they attack the indian embassy and so on. so all of these different groups. the pakistanis are fighting the pakistani taliban very aggressively. they ve taken over 4,000 casualties. the pakistani taliban is the group that gave the training to the botched times square bomber. and they re very they have begun to target the united states in addition so we have to pay particular attention to them. on my trips to pakistan, the one i am starting tomorrow will be my 14th trip since i took this