Posted on 12/14/2011 5:48:45 PM PST by george76
US Congressional panel froze $700 million in aid to Pakistan until the country gives assurances it is joining the fight against the spread of homemade bombs in the region...
The latest move by the United States may only further hurt ties with Pakistan and contribute to the growing sense of anti-Americanism in the population, a senior Pakistani official told NBC News. The relationship between the two counties suffered greatly in May when US forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
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The US has given about $20 billion in security and economic aid to Pakistan since 2001, mostly in the form of reimbursements for assistance in fighting militants. Congress says Islamabad has not only failed to act against the militant groups, it has actively provided help to them in some cases
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Geez, that’s almost as much as the stimulus money.
oooops, I got that wrong, but it’s still a lot of dough.
...But provides 900 million in under the table deals.
“The latest move by the United States may only further hurt ties with Pakistan and contribute to the growing sense of anti-Americanism in the population”
Funny how these sort of conclusions are never applied by Reuters in reverse, e.g. “The latest move by Pakistan may only further hurt ties with the United States”, etc.
Why don’t they just kill all of it?Its doing us no good.The Pakastani’s are working both ways against the middle on this war on terror.Why do you think Bin Ladin was able to live in comfort right under their military’s nose.
They knew be was their but they were shielding him from us.Either that or they have the most inept security force in existence.And I don’t think that’s possible.
That's enough to pay 7,000 more US border agents $100,000 per year. That's an agent every 0.28 miles from San Diego to the Texas Gulf of Mexico.
Not to worry, the senate will make sure that money goes to our enemies. Because it’s what Zer0 wants.
Not only should we not give aid to Pakistan, but we should recognize the country as an enemy, and support movements to break the country up, back into its ethnic and tribal groupings.
As far as I can tell, Pakistan the Nation does little that is “good” - its people are kept dirt poor, its Government is a corrupt, elitist dictatorship, it defaults to radical Islam and is an exporter of terrorism.
“until the country gives assurances it is joining the fight against the spread of homemade bombs in the region... “
They make terrorism sound warm and homey.
It’s time to evacuate the area then nuke it from orbit. Just to make sure.
The Red Cross just knocked on my door and asked if we could contribute towards the floods in Pakistan.
I said we’d love to, but our garden hose only reaches to the sidewalk...
Did they love us when we poured money all over them?
Puck Fakistan.
Muck the fuslims.
Each and every man woman and child in America already owes a debt of $40,000
Thanks Bari Husein Shabazz.
bass akwards for sure and we have to borrow it to give it.
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