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Clinton waives terror restrictions, gives Pakistan $2 BILLION more US taxpayer dollars
October 12, 2012
via Pakistan freed of anti-terrorism obligations; U.S. billions flow instead – KansasCity.com.
The Obama administration has refused for the first time to declare that Pakistan is making progress toward ending alleged military support for Islamic militant groups or preventing al Qaida, the Afghan Taliban or other extremists from staging attacks in Afghanistan.
Even so, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has quietly informed Congress that she’s waived the legal restrictions that would have blocked some $2 billion in U.S. economic and military aid to Pakistan. Disbursing the funds, she said in an official notice, is “important to the national security interests of the United States.”
Clinton’s decision illustrates how far the administration apparently has determined that it must go, after a near-breakdown in relations, to ensure Pakistan’s cooperation in the uphill U.S. effort to prevent Afghanistan collapsing into all-out civil war when American-led international combat forces complete a withdraw by the end of 2014.
Some experts, however, warned that the move might backfire. The waivers could encourage a belief among Pakistani commanders that their cooperation is so crucial that Washington will continue overlooking the Pakistani military’s refusal to end what U.S. officials charge is its support for Afghan insurgent groups or to shutter militant sanctuaries, they said.
“The army is going to think that no matter how angry the Americans are at them, they are utterly indispensable and...”
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Money we don’t have to give other crooks for something they won’t do. I am sick to death of paying blackmail money to these enemy governments when threats and action should be what they get. Shock and awe their butts until they cry for mercy. And don’t let them out from under just because they SAY uncle. Make them PROVE it.
If we MUST spend money, rather spend it on bringing them to their damn knees than allowing them to bleed us like leeches. Capture their nukes and render them useless. Destroy their facilities so we don’t have to worry about them again for a million years. Maybe by then they will have learrned something about civilization.
We will know when the State Department changes their pro-Pakistan policies when the USA/Mexican border stops allowing Pakistan nationals to invade the USA.
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