The House Foreign Affairs Committee today moved forward with a draft resolution demanding a number of new concessions from the Pakistani government, threatening to withdraw yet more aid from the nation unless Pakistan ends the delay for US ‘counter-terror’ visas, and offers proof that all the weapons provided by the US won’t be used in any wars except for against the tribal militant factions.
The centerpiece demand, however, is that Pakistan immediately allow the US access to the wives of Osama bin Laden, who were detained after the al-Qaeda leader’s killing in early May.
Of course the US already cut $800 million earlier this month, with Pakistan looking for other sources of military aid. That could just be a drop in the bucket, however of the billions the US provides annually and the constant pledges of escalated aid.
That aid is particularly valuable to the Zardari government right now, with soaring military costs and a widening budget deficit leaving the nation on the verge of bankruptcy. Zardari has taken considerable flack over the perception that he is a US “puppet.” It remains to be seen how he reacts if the money that comes with that role dries up.
Damn, even the mafia held wives and children to be off limits. The Gambino's had higher morals than the US government.
that is true, there is a difference between gangsters and street punks
America actually wants to continually screw Pakistan and also be its "Living Allah". Problem is with the brain dead Paki followers of Islam. In their hate for Hindu and Hindstan, financial aid or no aid, Pakis will be wiping American ass for long time to come. Right now these Islamic thugs are only pretending to be "hurt" because their "cherry" has been bursted. There was never any "cherry"
I think the USG is scared that the wives will spill the beans as to what really happened there.The open secret is that there was no such thing as OBL,rest alone his as an outcome of that hollywood style raid.How many lies will you puke Uncle Sam and for how long we will be falling for the FOX,CNN and CNBC plus BBC propaganda machine of turnning each and every USG lie in acceptable truth.
Leave Pakistan alone.If Zardari want the bucks give it to him,Pakistanis will soon do the unimagible to these crooks.They have to pay for what they they beought this Nation to a begging culture.We do not need any AID and will Appreciate if the USG at once put an end to this leak of dollars to the most needy in our nation i.e Govt at any given time.
By cutting military aid to Pakistan, the US is actually doing Pakistan a favor.
Exactly! It's the equivelent of giving them their independence. That's why Washington doesn't want to stop giving aid and wants to extend it to as many countries as possible..
This is a tug of war woll continue and the US administration is blind and don,t see the realities.
It will result in total collape of dialogue with US which good for my country as amerioca is a state we can,t believe.
Sooner or later we have to leave luxurious life of upper class then we can mange every thing.
Naturally we don,t need america and america needs us.
Neither US needs Pakistan nor Pakistan needs US. It is just a con game which helps a lot of people make a lot of money at the expense of ordinary folks.
I must have been mistaken to think that Foreign Policy was supposed to be run from the Executive Branch, not the Legislative…silly me. Not that the administration was doing such a sterling job themselves.
I'm thinking foreign policy is run by the CiA and to a lesser extent the military and state department. Obama has proven to be a spineless coward.
Just leave us alone. We don't need your aid and you know what you do with your aid. Just leave Pakistan alone and take Zardiies with you.
Like JLS said about wives and families. There is no group on the planet more stupid than the US Congressional Republicans. They have absolutely no idea of norms of behavior recognized by the rest of the world. It is really incredible that the US ruling class allows these people into power. They did, after all, put Obama in for the exact reason that Bush was similarly ignorant.
Pakistan = logistics.
If Pakistan gets thrown under the bus, so does the war in Afghanistan. Then Obama gets to get thrown under the bus for not only losing Mubarak, but also Pakistan and Afghanistan. The October Surprise incident took care of Carter in 1980. I'd wager there's been some back room feelers put out at the bare minimum by this point.
These dopes have an extremely short memory. The Pakis made his wives from the compound available shortly after he was killed. If you had seen some foreign invaders rush in and shoot all the men in the house, at least three of them not armed, would you be willing to sit down to tea and have a nice conversation? The wives refused to talk to the CIA reps