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2011-10-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pakistanis at risk over world inaction on floods: WFP
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Posted by Fred 2011-10-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Pakistan 

#1 Perhaps they can pull some of the funding from their nuke bomb program. They have more than they need and are making more....
Posted by tipover 2011-10-04 00:56||   2011-10-04 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 The Pak govt is cause-and-effect challenged. Fixing this will take time---geologic time.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-10-04 00:57||   2011-10-04 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, my Giveadam is in the shop.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-10-04 01:02||   2011-10-04 01:02|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the table is being set up for a run. Here is a possible scenario:

Staged anti-Pak rhetoric increases and smolders on for a few more months, accusations, counter-accusations, etc. Obama steps in around the 'Eid-ul-Fitr timeframe, selects a special Envoy and a team travels to Pakistan with charity (food) for the poor. Deals are cut, a presidential summit is arranged for next Spring. The Light Bringer travels to India (more deals $$$$), then Afghanistan (more deals $$$$), then Pakistan for the grand finale of deal making. Pervez Musharraf hosts summit, declares the Light Bringer a global peacemaker and geopolitical genius. Just in time for the election.
Posted by Besoeker 2011-10-04 01:36||   2011-10-04 01:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey, maybe the Chinese could send a carrier?
Posted by Ebboque Gray5839 2011-10-04 02:54||   2011-10-04 02:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Insh'allan
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-10-04 07:18||   2011-10-04 07:18|| Front Page Top

#7 My compassion fatigue has crossed the line into cynical mockery.

Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by AlanC 2011-10-04 08:59||   2011-10-04 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Could be, could be NORK model.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-04 10:30||   2011-10-04 10:30|| Front Page Top

#9 The US gov should tell the Pakis to use their own troops for relief ops. After all we're paying for them.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-04 10:33||   2011-10-04 10:33|| Front Page Top

#10 The problem, Besoeker, is that Pakistan would go apeshit if India got the same attention they did, and particularly (in your scenario) if India was the first stop on the visit.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-10-04 12:02||   2011-10-04 12:02|| Front Page Top

#11 Who cares.
Posted by Hellfish 2011-10-04 12:17||   2011-10-04 12:17|| Front Page Top

#12  The US should buy Pakistan's fissile material in exchange for flood aid. A win-win all around. Any supporters?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-04 17:25||   2011-10-04 17:25|| Front Page Top

#13 *Yawn*

(Again)
Posted by Barbara 2011-10-04 18:07||   2011-10-04 18:07|| Front Page Top

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