With Allies Like These . . . Pt. 4 Posted by Michael Cohen

You know, it's getting to the point where I could write one of these every day. In the latest installment of "With Allies Like These," comes words - via the New York Times - that the Pakistani government is not a big fan of the United States these days.

Parts of the Pakistani military and intelligence services are mounting what American officials here describe as a campaign to harass American diplomats, fraying relations at a critical moment when the Obama administration is demanding more help to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda

The campaign includes the refusal to extend or approve visas for more than 100 American officials and the frequent searches of American diplomatic vehicles in major cities, said an American official briefed on the cases.

The problems affected military attachés, CIA officers, development experts, junior level diplomats and others, a senior American diplomat said. As a result, some American aid programs to Pakistan, which President Obama has called a critical ally, are “grinding to a halt,” the diplomat said.

What the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is going on here? This is our key ally in the fight in Afghanistan; this the country that we are nominally in Afghanistan to ensure doesn't de-stabilize; this is the country that is the newly minted recipient of $7.5 billion in US foreign assistance.

And it doesn't appear that the Pakistanis feel particularly chastened by their behavior:

Pakistani officials acknowledged the situation but said the menacing atmosphere resulted from American arrogance and provocations, like taking photographs in sensitive areas, and a lack of understanding of how divided Pakistanis were about the alliance with the United States.

The harassment has grown so frequent that American officials said they viewed it as a concerted effort by parts of the military and intelligence services that had grown resentful of American demands to step up the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Though the United States has been sending large amounts of military assistance to the Pakistani Army, and helping its premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, the campaign shows the ambivalence, even “hatred” toward the United States in those quarters, the American official said.

A Pakistani security official, who has kept a tally of many of the incidents, was not sympathetic, saying the Americans had brought on the problems.“Unfortunately, the Americans are arrogant,” the Pakistani security official said. “They think of themselves as omnipotent. That’s how they come across.”

This is the country of which President Obama said the United States is "committed to a partnership . . . that is built on a foundation of mutual interest, mutual respect and mutual trust. As my friends across the pond would say, "Bollocks!"

I hate to say this, but the gap between what President Obama sketched out in his West Point speech two weeks ago and what is happening on the ground in Af/Pak seems to grow wider every single day.

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