Posted on 09/27/2011 1:05:28 AM PDT by coldphoenix
A key American lawmaker from Texas has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to freeze all U.S. aid to “disloyal” Pakistan.
The House Resolution (No HR 3013) if passed will freeze all U.S. aid to Pakistan with the exception of funds that are designated to help secure nuclear weapons.
“Since the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan has proven to be disloyal, deceptive and a danger to the United States,” Congressman Ted Poe said in a statement after tabling the resolution in the House on Friday.
“This so-called ally continues to take billions in U.S. aid, while at the same time supports the militants who attack us.
“The United States must immediately freeze all aid to Pakistan,” said Mr. Poe, who is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Pakistan has made it “painfully obvious” that they will continue their policy of “duplicity and deceit” by pretending to be U.S. ally in the war on terror while simultaneously promoting violent extremism, the Congressman said.
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With the exception to secure... We are subsidizing their nuke program, among other things.
Pakistan is troublesome and treacherous and would be whether or not paid off. However it (and its nukes) hasn’t yet fallen into radical jihadists’ hands. Whatever the US does, it would be smart not to pull another Jimmy Carter. The devil we know may actually be superior to the devil we don’t know.
They build more nukes while we subsidize their security? Sounds rather tenuous to say the least.
If the plan is to Jimmy-Carter Pakistan, there should be a credible plan to wipe out all those nukes before the chaos results in a Muslim Brotherhood type gang taking it over.
Its ghastly blasphemy law aside (which IMHO serves as a fig leaf for the radical clerics), Pakistani government is pretty moderate as Islam goes.
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I believe it is more complex than that, and you are perhaps using too broad of a brush when you say their “government”.
Most of their politicians (elected representatives) are fairly moderate) and not the problem as much as is their military and intelligence services (ISI). Those components are full of rabid Islamists and are the ones controlling the nukes. That is what we need to worry about.
The facts on the ground are that there are a lot of Muslims (or people calling themselves Muslims) in Westernized countries, and even in pockets of Islamic countries, who take a very lax, figurative view of the Koran. Kind of like the Unitarians of Islam. A danger continually exists that these nominal Muslims will find inspiration to go truly radical in their faith. But at the moment, they are not there.
The nukes have IIRC been set up so that the assent of the elected government is required to launch any of them. If this wasn’t so, India would have been curry under glass a long time ago.
If he were truly a Congressman who says it as it is, he would name this the "kiss the Pakistani drone program and our political influence goodbye" bill.
The unfortunate reality is that Pakistan is pay-to-play. There could consequences (some very serious) to terminating the relationship.
How about we just quit throwing borrowed money to our sworn enemies? Or would that be too simple?
i agree. we need to wipe out their nooks (calld the Izlamicbomb by the Pkis) now
moderate — but that’s like a moderately violent Great White shark. Also, they have nooks.
they WILL go radical no matter what -- you can't predict it, they use the excuses of Israel, etc. etc.
not really — Pakiland is the only nook country where the nooks are completely under military control. Which is actually a better thing in pakiland as the army is more circumspect than the politicos
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