"Friends, you've to have friends..." / DoD photo by Lorenzo Ware
First, Iraq makes it clear it doesn’t want U.S. troops hanging around. Then, over the weekend, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says:
If fighting starts between Pakistan and the U.S., we are beside Pakistan. If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan’s help, Afghanistan will be there with you.
Sure, he was speaking on Pakistani television, but even so: with allies like this, who needs foes?