Good news! US Congress panel freezes $700m worth of Pakistan aid
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« on: December 13, 2011, 11:53:22 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2011, 07:14:43 AM »

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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2011, 12:35:56 PM »

Is that the sum total of our aid to Pakistan, or is it a fraction?

If we just stopped giving them money and they had our military leave, that would be nice.
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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2011, 01:26:28 PM »

Is that the sum total of our aid to Pakistan, or is it a fraction?
A small fraction.  $11.7B in military aid and $6.1B in economic aid since 2002.
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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2011, 01:28:46 PM »

Maybe the US are starting to realize their "allies" aren't as nice as they thought...

There are plenty of countries left toward which such standards should be applied though.
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« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2011, 01:21:44 PM »
« Edited: December 16, 2011, 01:26:15 PM by Benwah [why on Earth do I post something] Courseyay »

The 1st relationship the US should stop with Pakistan would be the one there is between their drones and the people in the Western mountains, which is basically made of bombs, and if I remind the casualties I could follow a few months ago on i-télé (a French news channel, not particularly biased in that realm), would have made at least as much civilian deaths, than terrorists/fighters/whatever people are messing around in this region. The USA succeeded to, pointlessly, being maybe more hated than Indians there, and you even paid a lot for that, congrats. I've always been amazed by US amateurism when it comes to international foreign policy. Very short term views seem to be their rule.

Then, the 2nd relationship the US should stop, is indeed the billions they gave to the tricky Pakistanese army, making of it one of the most powerful one in the world (not even thinking about nukes), and this for a totally hazardous country politically. An army which beyond being tricky for years, used, with the bless (the request?) of USA, this money to make the glorious tactic of the War on Terror, which beyond making significant casualties, made a lot of population movings within the country, which made a lot of people joining the over-crowded messy Pakistanese cities, making still more social troubles in them, with an increasing of jobless people, with an increasing of poverty, with an increasing of the criminality, and with ethnic and cultural problems between people from the plains and those who come from the mountains (and this was even before the massive floods, in which here, they would have certainly enjoyed receiving billions of help, but well, only about 1,000 killed, 20 millions lost everything though...). So much for destabilizing the country... 

Indeed, there wouldn't be any problems to continue to give civil aid, that is, if you're sure that all of this doesn't fund still more corruption that discredits still more the current political class and that helps still more extremists' voices...

In short, if I had only one advice to give to Americans it would be:

CASSEZ-VOUS!!!

DEGAGEZ!!!

FOUTEZ LE CAMP!!!

BARREZ-VOUS!!!

RAUS!

OUT!

DEHORS!

Fini! Bye bye! Ciao! Tscüss!

Just leave, leave, that whole region, you earned nothing by going there, did a lot of not good things (to use an euphemism...), and really are creating far more troubles than there was there, and in the end of the day, that are Pakistanese who suffers the most of all of it, hundreds or thousands died in terrorism in Pakistan during last years?
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« Reply #6 on: December 21, 2011, 02:28:25 AM »

Bin Laden was in a large suspicious compound one mile from Pakistan's West Point. Cut off all the aid.
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