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rawtape -> RE: Pakistani Islamists Protest U.S. Embassy’s ‘Gay Pride’ Event Tuesday, July 05, 2011 By Patrick Good (7/6/2011 6:18:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
Grounds of US embassy are not really local soil.
Pakis should live and let live.
Hunky,
I'm going to side with Aneirin and Arpig on this. Note that there was nothing wrong with having an internal shindig celebrating Pride with GLIFAA members. However, inviting Pakistani LGBT advocates to the Pride celebration and telling them that "the U.S. Embassy is here to support you and stand by your side every step of the way," is not a good move on two separate grounds.
The first is an issue of realpolitik. In a country that you need for shipping supplies to your troops in Afghanistan, a country where your foreign policies have alienated a large number of the population, a country where your rival China is rapidly gaining influence, it's probably not a very good idea to egg on the populace even further in their anti-American views.
The second is an ethical issue. Given that the US has never been that very good in delivering on its promises (see for instance, the Iraqi Shiites that were promised support but put down brutally by Saddam, the Radio Free Europe broadcasts during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution which misled many of the Hungarian people into believing that NATO or United Nations would intervene if the citizens continued to resist, etc.), is it really ethical to lead local (Pakistani) LGBT people to believe that the US "has their back"?
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