Haqqani
Jeffrey Goldberg praises Pakistan’s ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, for battling the military establishment in Pakistan and calls him a great “patriot without honor” in Pakistan.
Haqqani is viewed in Washington as one of the only credible Pakistani officials left…
Writes a friend: I’m sure Goldberg thinks so. Haqqani is a good friend to many neocons, having hosted–as Ali Gharib exposed— a fund-raiser for his “old friend” Cliff May’s Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Goldberg was a panelist at the conference. Haqqani was widely seen as the lobby-friendly figure who sold the U.S. on the idea of engineering Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan. When that ended with her violent death and the election of her husband, Haqqani was rewarded with his post in D.C.
And check out this report from Pulse. The lobby’s reach is far:
An investigation by Ali Gharib on Foreign Policy magazine’s Middle East Channel reveals that Pakistani ambassador Husain Haqqani recently hosted a fundraiser for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an Israel lobby think tank campaigning for an attack on Iran.
Haqqani has a long association with the Israel lobby. He has worked for the neoconservative Hudson Institute and the notorious Islamophobe Daniel Pipes. Indeed, Pipes chose Haqqani to head his ‘religion-building’ project, a ‘pro-American’ Islamic think tank that would ‘go head-to-head with the established Islamist institutions’. In February 2004, he toured the United States with neoconservative propagandist Stephen Schwartz attacking mainstream Muslims organizations, and advising local Jewish communities on how best to enhance their lobbying power in Washington. In Cleveland, they told their Jewish audience that “[e]xtremists dominate all of the major Muslim advocacy groups”.
The world is always interested in what the little corporal has to say.
Another Pakistani traitor and bribee huh?I bet he went to Harvard too .
In 1973, some press reports appeared in Israel claiming that King Hussein of Jordan was seen at a Tel-Aviv shopping center in Dizingof. At the time, both countries denied the claims and dismissed them as ludicrous.
Years later, after new information had come to light, Israeli historian Avi Shlaim wrote in this book, the Lion of Jordan, that after attending the Cairo Summit on September 10 – 12, 1973, the king arranged for a secret meeting with Israeli officials a mere two weeks before the 1973 war (October / Yom Kippur War).
Prof. Shlaim wrote:
So the question is, how long before we can see Husain Haqqani shopping in Tel-Aviv?
I’m not sure he’d be my first choice as a judge of a man’s patriotism but if he says someone’s without honor then who could argue with him?
That said, Goldberg is undoubtedly right to laud anyone battling his country’s military establishment. Particularly if it’s a military establishment that may be dragging its feet about doing its duty and bombing another country halfway round the globe.
I know someone who is going to need asylum soon,very soon.The Pakistani government of traitors is gonna blow sky high soon,very soon.
And here also,hopefully,though I would bet the Pakistanis beat US too it.