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2010-10-19 India-Pakistan

US finalizing negotiations to fund Pak's fight against terrorism

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Posted by gorb 2010-10-19 00:39|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The headline should read,

US Finalizing Bribe to Stop Pak Funding Terrorism

Posted by phil_b 2010-10-19 03:07|| 2010-10-19 03:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't going to work.

Imagine Pakistan is like a really huge West Virginia with various "good old boys" who really run things in the "hollers". Now some politician is going to collect a really nice bribe, and he might even go out and have a word with those boys but in the end, those folks up in those hills run their own show.

We are pi$$ing more cash down the toilet.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-19 03:38|| 2010-10-19 03:38|| Front Page Top

#3 View it as a 'rent payment' on that lovely vacant lot if you will. Unfortunately, the much larger and more threatening unpaid regional landlord is Iran. US foreign policy and wartime strategy based on the Chicago Ward Boss model.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-10-19 06:37|| 2010-10-19 06:37|| Front Page Top

#4 US finalizing negotiations to fund Pak's ~~fight against~~ terrorism

Fixed now.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-10-19 07:59|| 2010-10-19 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The $2 billion package is on top of billions of dollars the United States already gives Pakistan in military aid and a $7.5 billion aid package over five years...

Key words: on top of billions
What the total?

Posted by Willy 2010-10-19 09:48|| 2010-10-19 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm so sick of reading articles where we are giving the stain more money. We have ppl in the US that could use the money but you have too pull a tooth too get it, yet they pretty much flaunt it in our face that they are against us and we continue too pay.Pull out of the whole region and let them starve too death.

Posted by chris 2010-10-19 15:44|| 2010-10-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

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