How could you not trust a country who claimed they didn't know Osama Bin Laden was hiding less than a mile from one of their most elite military academies?
It’ll be interesting to see if Trump can actually do anything to end foreign aid, including military aid, to Pakistan. The US alliance with Pakistan goes back to Pakistan’s founding and has outlasted multiple presidencies. The Deep State has a lot of love for Pakistan and its generals, despite all of the harm that nation has done us (aside from the Taliban, 9/11, and harboring Osama bin Laden, neither Iran nor North Korea would possess a nuclear capability if not for Pakistan).
“How could you not trust a country who claimed they didn’t know Osama Bin Laden was hiding less than a mile from one of their most elite military academies?”
This only proves how two-faced the Pakistanis are.
Pakistan got nukes, how? Because of our aid freed them up to do so, much like India. How can we roll the clock back on both or get them to nuke each other into the oblivion. The world would be a better place without both of them.
(Paki) officials insisted they will do no more to help...
Well, bye. And bye to your aid.
For many years, the threat has been that Pakistan would shut down our supply lines into Afghanistan (through their territory), if we cut off the cash.
My guess is that Trump had more leverage on them to prevent that, before he launched.
The new Afghan strategy that was developed in 2017, had getting tough on Pakistan as one of its key planks. Some planning has been going on, about how best to do this.
Pakistan is a backstabbing safe zone for terrorists. Pride is a harsh taskmaster. They need to be kicked back into the stone age of history.