Tolerating missiles

Letter November 22, 2012
Where do we stand on this war on terror by siding with the Americans? Nowhere!

RAWALPINDI: This is with reference to US President Barack Obama’s statement in which he sided with Israel in its current conflict with Palestine. He remarked, “There is no country on earth that would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders, so we are fully supportive of Israel’s right to defend itself ...”.

In his statement, President Obama forgot to mention Pakistan. In fact, he should have stated, “There’s no country on earth except Pakistan that would tolerate missiles raining down in its citizens …”


Where do we stand on this war on terror by siding with the Americans? Nowhere!


Major (retd) Talaat Khurshid


Published in The Express Tribune, November 22nd, 2012.