Just Say ‘Thank You’ to Cut in American Aid (The Frontier Post, Pakistan)
Jul 11th, 2011 | 5 responses
Pakistani frustration and resentment continued to mushroom yesterday, when, due to its displeasure with a lack of Pakistani cooperation, the U.S. announced a cut of $800 million in aid to Islamabad. According to this editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post, U.S. aid has brought the country nothing but misery and insecurity, and in any case, amounts to much less than Washington claims.
The Frontier Post editorial says in part:
This stoppage in American military aid should come as no surprise. A debt-ridden America hasn’t only been making a scapegoat of Pakistan for its own failures in its costly lost Afghan war, but it has relentlessly been twisting Islamabad’s arm to get Pakistan to stick its neck out again and somehow pull America’s chestnuts from the Afghan fire.
But how can one speak of Pakistan, when not even the world’s greatest armies can bail America out of its quagmire. Pakistan has enough on its own plate to contend with due to America’s foibles, failures and shenanigans in Afghanistan. And Pakistan’s overextended military can’t handle the additional weight of launching an operation into North Waziristan, which is what America’s warlords are demanding.
We would be far better off without this mythical U.S. aid. They have already shoved us into hell for a pittance. And with that pittance, they want to push our hand into another inferno. … Pakistan leaders must say to the Americans: thank you for stopping your aid; now leave us alone to clear up the cruel mess you have created with your spectacular collapse in Afghanistan.
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5 Responses to “Just Say ‘Thank You’ to Cut in American Aid (The Frontier Post, Pakistan)”
The message in this article is a mess, but so is ours. No one understands this region, it is 200 years out of sync and best avoided and left to war lords. It looks like without a modicum of support from Pak., Afg, is also a no-go.
Isn’t that basically what the Pakistani army said? Shrug of the shoulders and a “whatever”.
Pull it all. They apparently don’t want or need it.
I think that the point is that they’d rather that we didn’t conduct war in their lands.
or maybe they liked things the way they were?
Things were great when extremists and tribal war lords could rule over the western part of their country. They simply didn’t have to deal with it. They could also recruit terrorists to attack India from those regions. Having a batch of suicide bombers on call is never a bad thing.
I was very supportive of our military funding of Pakistan, but if they don’t want it and are willing to publicly say so… then later on.
This still stinks and smells of politics and posturing on both sides. Problem is there isn’t one side, it is multiple sides, in this Pak/Afg region (and surrounding areas too). Read about the Great Game and think Gordian Knot.
However, and I hope it doesn’t sound too partisan, I think we shouldn’t have started with the PUBLIC threats and recriminations. I would wager that this is more Obama than Clinton.