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Publication: CNN
Date: September 17, 2001
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/17/gen.kissinger.cnna/index.html
CNN: Let's explore further the impact
of Pakistan, now offering its support to the United States in exchange
for retiring $30 billion worth of debt and some other things they want
taken care of by the United States. There are folks like the Northern Alliance,
the opposition front to the Taliban, that says don't trust Pakistan. Do
you trust Pakistan?
KISSINGER: I don't know. I would
judge countries by their performance now, not by their words. The American
objective has to be to break up these terrorist organizations. I'm not
saying that all had to be done with military force; for example, there
could be a ban on travel to any country that has safe haven for terrorists,
added to economic pressures.
But in the end these terrorist groups
must have training bases; they prepare these things at great leisure, and
it is dangerous for all of us, suicidal, to let them get organized, hit
us, then take one retaliatory blow and come back two or three years later
with another disruptive, murderous attack.
