...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
air strike that killed 24 Pak soldiers.
Senator
John MaverickMcCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former
foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
, a leading Republican voice on security issues, charged that Pak intelligence continues to support a cut-thoat group that kills Americans, and he noted that Pak troops in the past have fired across the poorly marked Afghan border.
"This is a fog of war situation. Investigation is going on," McCain said on CNN's State of the Union program, referring to the November 26 air strikes on a Pak border post that plunged relations between the two erstwhile allies into crisis.
"But also the fact is that the ISI, the intelligence arm of the Mighty Pak Army, is still supporting the Haqqani network which is killing Americans. That is unacceptable," he said.
He said materials in roadside kabooms that have killed US forces in neighboring Afghanistan have been traced to two fertilizer factories in Pakistain.
Since the air strikes, a furious Pakistain has cut off the movement of supplies to US forces through Pakistain and ordered the closure of US drone operations at a Pak air base.
Asked how the United States should proceed, McCain said a complete break with Pakistain had been tried in the past for a ten year period and it did not work.
"But we have to address it in a realistic fashion and aid has to be gauged on the degree of cooperation that they are showing us in helping us prevent the needless deaths of young Americans," he said.
"So I would gauge our aid, particularly military aid, and we've given many billions, as you know, directly related to the degree of cooperation they show us, and we have to explore all alternatives."