Is the US being sucked into the Pakistani quicksand?
Is the US being sucked into the Pakistani quicksand? I have been reading with some degree of consternation the Obama governments decision to provide economic and “defense” funding to the Pakistani government in spite of credible intelligence that Pakistan is ramping up its nuclear arsenal. For the last decade or so the US and Pakistani military have worked in tandem to enrich themselves at the cost of the US taxpayer. It has been reported in the US press and discussed in the US Senate in the past – but nothing seems to change. The Bush government used to give an annual certification earlier that the funds were being used to fight terrorists, whereas the arms obtained were such that they could be only targeted against India. Not only that, subsequent audits proved that the Pakistani government was duping the US tax payer by providing ridiculous expense statements for re-imbursements which the US kept paying – these audits actually nailed the lie! But apparently the new US President is h...