<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e1fd122e-e3e6-4c18-8a8a-dadbe95b5c1c/39FB6912-A677-4FCA-B413-94464CAF1CDF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/07/obamas-foreign-policy-speech/" href="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/07/obamas-foreign-policy-speech/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.ft.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/07/obamas-foreign-policy-speech/"><P>The first point is that while Obama spoke abou t demanding more from the Pakistani government, he spoke as if nothing had changed since the Pakistani elections and as if General Musharraf is still completely in control. So Obama was able to make appealing sounding calls for more democracy in Pakistan and for “standing up for the aspirations of the Pakistani people”. In fact, diplomats dealing with the new democratic government in Pakistan are - predictably - very worried by its efficiency (or lack of it) and its attitude to Afghanistan.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2008/07/obamas-foreign-policy-speech/"><P>Second, Obama’s illustration of what he might do differently in terms of attacking terrorist safe havens was unconvincing. Basically, he said that if the Americans knew where Osama bin Laden was, they would strike - regardless of what Pakistan had to say about it. Well, of course. Does anyone really believe the Bush administration would stay its hand under similar circumstances?</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39FB6912-A677-4FCA-B413-94464CAF1CDF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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