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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