Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening ground supply lines into neighboring Afghanistan after she apologized for the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers in a NATO strike in November.
"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military," Clinton told Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar by telephone. America's top diplomat said in a statement that she had also offered "our deepest regrets for the tragic incident" on Pakistani soil that led that country to shut the supply lines.
I assume Secretary Clinton did not add she is sorry that the Pakistanis are paranoid lunatics who shouldn't be allowed to run with scissors let alone possess nuclear weapons.
But I'm not a trained diplomat, obviously.
I wonder, however, if Syria's Bashar Assad is really the one who is sorry about this development.
UPDATE: I'm not going to slam the Obama administration on this. Some say after holding firm for 7 months we caved and apologized.
In fact, after 7 months of insisting we apologize and take responsibility for the death of Pakistan's soldiers, Pakistan accepted our often repeated regrets that the Pakistanis lost some soldiers. Secretary Clinton may have uttered the secret word "sorry" but it was not an expression of responsibility.
I'm fne with this.
