Pakistanis Reject U.S. Partnership ["Significant Rejection" In US As Partner Against War on Terror]

NYTimes ^ | September 30, 2009

[Steelfish]

Pakistanis Reject U.S. Partnership

By JANE PERLEZ Published: September 30, 2009

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Even with the arrival of the Obama administration and the prospect of substantially increased aid, more Pakistanis — an overwhelming majority — continued to reject the United States as a partner to fight militancy in their country, a new poll finds.

The survey, conducted by the Washington-based International Republican Institute, underscored the difficulties the Obama administration faced in its efforts to tamp down Islamic militancy in this strategically vital nation.

The I.R.I. is a nonprofit pro-democracy group affiliated with the Republican Party and financed by the American government.

President Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of the slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and a relatively inexperienced politician, scored a 25 percent approval rating how he’s handling his job, 6 points more than in March.

His chief opponent, Nawaz Sharif, the leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, garnered a 67 percent favorable rating, down from 75 percent in March.The findings come as Washington is poised to spend $1.5 billion in assistance for Pakistan in the coming year, a big jump in American funds intended to help strengthen the civilian government rather than the military.

The poll confirms the persistent strand of anti-American discourse in Pakistan in the last few years, and its release coincides with particularly strong attacks in the Pakistani media about the American Embassy’s hiring private security firms to protect American diplomats

[Cicero]

After 9/11, Bush made Musharef an offer he couldn’t refuse.

Now the bleeding heart leftists have ensured that Musharef (warts and all) was ousted. And Obama is busy making them an offer they can all too easily refuse.

[PetroniusMaximus]

I wonder if they don’t want to be our “partner” because they are, in fact, our enemy???

[dianed]

Pakistan is 97% muslim with an educational structure that functions to foment hate against non-muslims. Are we surprised by their negative responses to our calls for assistance?

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1141/Pakistan-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html

[coon2000]

This makes my blood boil, “..the prospect of substantially increased aid...”. How in the name of hell has it gotten to the point where this crooked fake royalty in Washington is allowed to borrow money from China to give to the Pakistani’s or any other nation for that part? Don’t let me forget the UN. They then put a gun to our heads and say, “we borrowed money from China to give to our enemies, now you need to pay it back”! We are borrowing money from China that we do not have to give to foreign entities!!!!!!!!

We have Americans losing family businesses, farms, jobs and yet the trash in Washington is borrowing money to give to foreign governments. We, our children and their children will be working and paying off this debt for the rest of our lives. What in the name of hell is going on here?

[okie01]

Now the bleeding heart leftists have ensured that Musharef (warts and all) was ousted. And Obama is busy making them an offer they can all too easily refuse.

Liberals will automatically reject any dictator who is favorable to the U.S.

And they will embrace any dictator who is anti-American.

[Jack Hammer]

Meanwhile, they furnish safe havens for al-Qaeda and have nukes.

It’s time to become VERY chummy with India.