As Rocky told Bullwinkle: "That trick never works!"
Posted on 07/11/2011 6:40:39 AM PDT by markomalley
The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the U.S. seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al-Qaida, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday.
Holding back the $800 million in aid is unlikely to pressure Pakistan to increase cooperation with the U.S. and could strengthen those in the government who argue that Washington is a fickle ally who can't be trusted, they said.
"If you still need the relationship, which clearly the United States does, then it really doesn't make sense to take action at this time because it leaves the United States with less, not more, influence with the Pakistani military," said Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. "Cooperation cannot be coerced by punitive actions."
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We do?
Oh darn - does that mean that the 1% who like us now won’t like us anymore?
Everyone knows that if you have to buy love, It is an illusion.
billions in aid and UBL was living right under their noses. Forget aid. Anyway we are broke.
Obama wants higher taxes to pay common world prostitutes.
Obama wants higher taxes to pay Muslim world terrorists.
As Rocky told Bullwinkle: "That trick never works!"
I strongly suspect that Pakistan had a big hand in 9/11, as a ploy to bring back US aid to chase Osama in Afghanistan (while hiding him in Pakistan). They were hurting after US funding stopped after the Russians went away.
The West can’t buy muslim friends, we can only rent them
His definition of shovel ready jobs... so America can be buried.
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