Dulles Security: Ur doin it rong.

From today’s Washington Post: Pakistani officials leaving in protest.

A delegation of senior Pakistani military officials visiting the United States for a major defense conference headed home in protest Tuesday night after they said they were interrogated and rudely treated by security officials at Dulles International Airport.

Apparently, the geniuses in Dulles:

detained the delegation for 2.5 hours and refused to allow the officials to contact their embassy or the U.S. military officials who had invited them to visit, according to a Pakistani military official who spoke on condition of anonymity. [Emphasis mine]

Yes, because that is the way to maintain quality relations with nuclear-armed allies whose population is getting increasingly sick off at our assorted and sundry military activities in their (literal) backyards.

The best part? One might ask, “why were these Pakistani officials going to Tampa”? Was it perhaps to visit the Everglades National Park, or perhaps Tampa’s fine Museum of Art? Let’s find out:

The Pakistani officers were originally en route to U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa to attend the annual conference of the U.S.-Pakistan Military Consultative Committee, said Maj. David Nevers, a Central Command spokesman. He said Centcom officials hoped to reschedule the conference.

headdesk

Well, you know, it’s not like we’re fighting a massive war along these guys' border, or depending on them for military supply routes, or trying to help make sure that their questionable intelligence service doesn’t keep funding the Taliban, or anything like that- who cares if the conference gets delayed? What could we possibly have to talk about with them?