Washington: United States Congressman from Texas Ron Paul, a critic of US war policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, said our nation’s policy in the Middle East is often conflicting and is particularly dangerous with regard to Pakistan, where the US and NATO allies have been fighting Taliban and Al Qaeda forces.
“We are giving [Pakistan] billions of dollars and we are bombing them,” he said, adding that the guiding principle of US foreign policy is to, “Do what we tell you and we will give you money; if you do not, we will bomb you. In Pakistan we are doing both.”
He said US should respect the integrity of Pakistan and no country has right to violate others integrity.
In an interview published in The New Hampshire Union Leader on Friday Paul said, despite overpowering popular approval of the raid that shot Osama Bin Laden dead in Pakistan, he favored the strategy pursued when the World Trade Center was bombed by terrorists in 1993. “We worked with the government of Pakistan and they helped us,” he said. “And many of [the terrorists] were brought back, and they were tried in New York and convicted and electrocuted or imprisoned. I don’t know what’s wrong with that.”
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