The U.S. - Pakistan Alliance To Combat Islamic Extremism Is Fraying

Photo released by the Pakistan's Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) on April 20, 2011 shows Pakistan's Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Khalid Shameem Wynne (R) meeting with his U.S. counterpart Admiral Mike Mullen in Pakistan's Rawalpindi. (Xinhua/INTER SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS)

Senior Pakistani Military Official on 'So-Called Coalition Partner' U.S. -- ABC News

For a moment as a senior Pakistani military official spoke to ABC News about his country's most important international relationship, his emotions seemed to get the better of him.

"The U.S. is saying, 'My way or the high way,'" the official said, and slammed his hand down on his desk. "They're going solo." Exasperated, the official told ABC News that "our so-called coalition partner" had put the military at odds with its own population.

"You've pitted us against our own people," he said. "And if you make us choose, of course how can we not choose our own people?"

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