Rex, the "King without a throne," Tillerson recently blamed Pakistan for not doing enough to suppress insurgents who cross over to attack US and Afghan troops. That earned Old Rex a rebuke from Pakistan's foreign minister.
America's security "failures" in Afghanistan are evident from events of the week when visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson could not move out of a U.S. military base and invited Afghan leaders to his "bunker" for talks, neighboring Pakistan said Thursday.
"This situation tells the whole story of U.S. failures, despite fighting in the country for 16 years," Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said. He was briefing a parliamentary committee on foreign affairs in Islamabad.
Tillerson visited Afghanistan on Monday for two hours. He held talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and top leaders of his unity government at the U.S.-run Bagram military base, about 60 kilometers north of the capital, Kabul. Officials cited security concerns for arranging the meeting at the base.
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Pakistan is accused of sheltering and maintaining secret ties to the Taliban and the Haqqani network. Both militant groups are waging a deadly insurgency in Afghanistan. Asif said Pakistan's influence on the Afghan Taliban has lately diminished because it has moved its bases to the Afghan side of the border.
"We told them [the U.S. delegation] there are influential players in the region, which might not have good relations with America but have a stake in the Afghan dispute," Asif said.
He was apparently referring to Russia and Iran. Both have acknowledged publicly they maintain ties with the Taliban.
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Rex should have stayed where he was. I read that Rex's wife thought he was right for the job. I wonder if they've talked about that lately.
Tillerson's wife did better than that, Owen. She urged him to take the job saying "I told you, God's not through with you." Kind of makes you wonder how badly God hates Tillerson to get him working for Trump.
Correction:
Pakistan is sheltering and maintaining secret ties to the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
Yes, of course it is. It always has. Pakistan's ISI plays both sides lest it allow some sort of Afghan-Indian alliance that isolates it.
Tillerson visited Afghanistan on Monday for two hours. He held talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and top leaders of his unity government at the U.S.-run Bagram military base, about 60 kilometers north of the capital, Kabul. Officials cited security concerns for arranging the meeting at the base.
Shitting himself was he?
I spend more time in the local coffee shop discussing daily affairs than Tillerson does discussing world events where he actually does have influence.
I have a friend that spends considerable time in Afghanistan doing NGO work.
It,usually, takes him a month to accomplish anything of worth.
Two friggen hours!!!
TB
Hey, that's two hours where he managed to put 12,000 km between himself and Mango Mussolini. I'm sure it was worth it to Rexxon.
Cap
That bit about God not being through with him was actually a threat.
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