Posted on 01/07/2016 9:35:46 PM PST by BenLurkin
Individual expressions of support and commiseration over the terrorist attacks on Indian assets in Pathankot and Mazar-e-Sharif has been tricking in from a raft of US lawmakers, but don't hold your breath for the Obama administration to alter the long standing US policy of coddling Pakistan's terrorism-steeped military establishment that has harmed both US and Indian interests in the region. .
. ... many senior US lawmakers tweeted and issued statements with the pro-forma expressions of support for India's sufferance. But Washington, which laid out the red carpet to Pakistan's military strongman Gen. Raheel Sharif last November, is showing no signs that it would hold the country to account for its continued backing of terrorism.
If anything, cocky Pakistani generals are already rubbing their hands in anticipation of the next lot of military toys, according to reports in the Pakistani media, including eight of their favored F-16 fighter jets.
Some lawmakers have called for a reevaluation of military aid to Pakistan if its hand is proven in the Pathankot attack, but given that the country has gotten away with so much on the terrorism front, including sheltering a host of terrorist principals from Osama bin Laden to Mullah Omar, the threat is seen as little more than bluster. .
"Pakistan has provided safe haven to terrorists for years from shielding Osama bin Laden to backing covert terrorist operations around the world," fumed Texas lawmaker Ted Poe... "We should not send money to nations who provide assistance to terrorists."
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Senate grandees John McCain, and before they joined the executive wing John Kerry and Joe Biden, have repeatedly facilitated US military and civilian aid to Islamabad even as Pakistani perfidy has continued to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan and civilians across the world...
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
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