To the President of the United States from the President of Pakistan:

To the President of the United States from the President of Pakistan, regarding Abbottabad:

I'm still evaluating how I'm going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, investigations and so forth. And obviously I'm going to look at past practices. And I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand, I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. And part of my job is to make sure that for example at the ISI, I've got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep our citizens safe. I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering up.

I have not made any final decisions but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward, we are doing the right thing. That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But my orientation's going to be to move forward.

My general belief is that when it comes to national security, what we have to focus on is getting things right in the future as opposed to looking at what we got wrong in the past.

I'm sure you will understand my thinking on this. You might even recognize it.


President Zardari


http://warisacrime.org/node/38873


http://www.eschatonblog.com/2011/05/little-more-super.html >

Palin on the other hand.

Well maybe not irony, but it is a cogent point overall.

-Hoot

write the letter -- an American who's afraid of investigations?

people who learn english as a second language dont make colloquial mistakes like that one. They do not substitute whole sentences for words they dont know. Instead they reform and make a second sentence.

First, this was clearly not written by Zardari. It was written by some poutraged hyper-leftist mirror image of a teabagger all upset that we're not trying to abuse the court system to prosecute his political enemies over issues that the American people are quite divided on.

Second, for anyone who is noticing, "moving on" is PRECISELY what the Obama administration is doing in this particular case. Criticize if you feel it's wrong, but don't accuse the administration of being inconsistent.

Third, the real question here is not so much whether Pakistan is going to throw ISI agents in jail, so much as it is to make sure this kind of policy does not get repeated. More or less the same thing vis a vis the Bush Administration as well.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

(which is quoted and linked to at the warcrimes link in the OP)


Except a few words I changed: from "detentions" to "investigations",
from "CIA" to "ISI",
from "Americans" to "citizens",
from "we're" to "I'm".

And I added the last line, two sentences at the end.


http://warisacrime.org/node/38873

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Economy/story?id=6619291&page=1