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2012-05-26 India-Pakistan

US lawmakers call Pakistan 'terrorist state', 'schizophrenic ally'

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Posted by Fred 2012-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 will still get at least $ 1 billion in American taxpayer money for 2013.

What does US taxpayers get for this?

Posted by Enver Crinesh9248 2012-05-26 06:07|| 2012-05-26 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 "Any money that goes to Islamabad will continue to end up in the pockets of people actively and deadly hostile to America," he said. "The Taliban is only the tip of the spear, the real enemy is Pakistain."

At last Congress have realised this!

Posted by Paul D 2012-05-26 06:10|| 2012-05-26 06:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Congress is privy to the intelligence traffic and I assure you, no reasonable person could reach any other conclusion regarding Pakistan.

My own suspicions regarding Dr Afridi are rather different from some, possibly conspiratoral, but plausable nonetheless. This poor fellow Afridi might very well have become the election tool of two corrupt, self-serving political regimes simultaneously. That being the scapegoat of Pakistan's complicity in the Bin Laden take down, and a quite convenient cause de jour news destraction for our administration all rolled into one. The illusion of outing a one trick pony foreign asset, who was already outed, what a small price to pay for successful political diversions.

Imagine if you will this scenario; following the Pakistani elections and much Obama adminisration pressure, Dr. Afridi's 33 year sentence is commuted to time served. Dr. Afridi and Chen Guangcheng, two highly media saturated, made for news human rights victories in a single election year. Amazing no?

Posted by Besoeker 2012-05-26 07:36|| 2012-05-26 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Schizo Ally?

Half right.

Wouldn't it be something if Dr. Afridi was just a fall guy for covering an internal leak and they just threw the whole thing out there, and it stuck on account of the smaht diplomacy squad? I'm not throwing tin foil hats about, but here is a place where a leading political candidate is murdered in broad daylight and no witnesses, yet this doctor was rounded up quite quickly.

Posted by swksvolFF 2012-05-26 09:15|| 2012-05-26 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Who called Pakistan schizophrenic? Ah, right, Lindsey Graham. Pak gets US boodle no matter how hard or how often they stab us in the back. Shitty, conniving, duplicitous? Yep. And far more rational than we are.

Posted by RandomJD 2012-05-26 22:08|| 2012-05-26 22:08|| Front Page Top

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