The US State Department has informed Pakistan that its entire annual military aid from the United States will be on hold until they agree to certain “actions,” including a new military offensive against the Haqqani Network, a Taliban-linked faction active in North Waziristan.
This is a continuation of Congressional pushes to block Pakistani aid, which included an announcement two weeks ago that Pakistan could only have the F-16 warplanes they ordered if they paid for them. Pakistan promptly cancelled the order, complaining the US doesn’t appreciate their relationship.
The State Department insisted that only Congress could fully explain its position on the matter, and that President Obama remains committed to getting Congress to “deliver security assistance to our partners.”
The US has been pushing Pakistan to launch various offensives against its tribal area since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and Pakistan has generally complied, though generally such offensives haven’t accomplished much, simply creating huge refugee crises and temporarily displacing militant factions around the area.
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This policy only really makes sense if the US immediately abandons Afghanistan. Of course this should have been done years ago.
The US can then save the money and lives they waste on both Pakistan and Afghanistan. But if they had the sense to do this, they’d also abandon Iraq, Syria, Libya etc.
All the money wasted on the wars would be spent on buying synthetic oil plants from the South Africans.
Madam Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the ISI $6 Billion Dollars.
The US Monetary bribery of the ISI to have Pakistani Army Raids against the Haqqani Klan have caused something, they have caused massive terror attacks against both Haqqani and Pakistani Schools and soft targets killing scores of innocents and disrupting the education process for the Pakistani Children who survive, all so the US could conduct long term low intensity conflict to subjugate the Pashtun Klans of Central Asia, commit population control against them and give the control of the Heroin Trade over to the CIA and Mossad.
Leave it to Washington to always be promoting war, war, and more war.
Washington’s symbol, its logo, is death, mayhem, refugees, weeping, and gnashing of teeth.