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Quote by: saif  I am curious as to what solution you are proposing here or is it just to try and collect posts. What would you do in this situation? or have you not any ideas or thoughts regarding Pakistan's very serious state of affairs? |
I think that very little of the money that we send Pakistan ever filters down to the people of the region in question, and I further believe that when the little bit that does make it to those people, the U.S. doesn't get any credit for it.
I wish there was some way to get the aid that we send to the people that need it, and that there was some way that they knew where it was coming from.
I'm on the verge now of believing that it's more economical and beneficial to withhold such payoffs and let nature take it's course in such backwards states as these. The few years that we can keep such regimes in power by buying their friendship aren't, in the long run, worth the backlash and hatred we get for supporting them when they eventually fall. What, exactly, is Musharraf delivering for all the money we send? Let his government fall and any new regime, if overly extreme in it's actions, face the reality of an India that's ready to flatten it. Nukes?? So what? They've been used before, and it's probably inevitable that they will be used again, possibly even against the U.S.
You want 100% security?? Want in one hand and crap in the other, see which one fills up first. Even in totalitarian regimes, no one ever gets it. Welcome to the 21st century.