Pakistan ۋﮧ۱م
Another 0bama fail. Of course, in a way, 0 just described the US government too in those first 2 panels.
Posted on 06/02/2009 7:27:21 AM PDT by BGHater
The U.S. is embarking on a $1 billion crash program to expand its diplomatic presence in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, another sign that the Obama administration is making a costly, long-term commitment to war-torn South Asia, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The White House has asked Congress for—and seems likely to receive—$736 million to build a new U.S. embassy in Islamabad, along with permanent housing for U.S. government civilians and new office space in the Pakistani capital.
The scale of the projects rivals the giant U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, which was completed last year after construction delays at a cost of $740 million.
Senior State Department officials said the expanded diplomatic presence is needed to replace overcrowded, dilapidated and unsafe facilities and to support a "surge" of civilian officials into Afghanistan and Pakistan ordered by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Other major projects are planned for Kabul,Afghanistan; and for the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Peshawar. In Peshawar,the U.S. government is negotiating the purchase of a five-star hotel that would house a new U.S. consulate.
Funds for the projects are included in a 2009 supplemental spending bill that the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed in slightly different forms.
Obama has repeatedly stated that stabilizing Pakistan and Afghanistan, the countries from which al Qaida and the Taliban operate, is vital to U.S. national security. He's ordered thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan and is proposing substantially increased aid to both countries.
In Pakistan, however, large parts of the population are hostile to the U.S. presence in the region — despite receiving billions of dollars in aid from Washington since 2001 — and anti-American groups and politicians are likely to seize on the expanded diplomatic presence in Islamabad as evidence of American "imperial designs."
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Uh, I don’t think so Obama.
The Pakistanis burned down our Embassy in Islamabad in 1979 killing two Americans.
That embassy will be bugged and sabotaged from the get go and that might be why 0bomo is pushing it
Cool. My company just might be one of the contractors. I wouldn’t mind seeing Pakistan for a few months. From behind a wall of heavily armed soldiers, mind you.
Oh cool, another costly edifice for the nuts to blow up.
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