Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid after country sentenced doctor who helped CIA
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/24/senate-panel-cuts-pakistan-aid-over-conviction/ Sure seems like Pakistan disliked our friend helping us get Benny. Well I hope we can get this guy out of that country. Didn't seem they wanted us to find Mr Big in their back yard.:tonofbricks:
Senate panel cuts Pakistan aid after ....
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by Jedi Knight, May 24, 2012.
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Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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preachinjesus Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
This thing about the doctor is really big news internationally. The BBC has been doing a lot of coverage on it lately.
Pakistan is not our ally in finding and turning over agents who seek the destruction of the West. The vast corruption and overwhelming sympathies to extremist Islamic groups betrays any goodwill they've built up. The Bin Laden raid speaks volumes. They're intelligence community is so badly compromised that they can't be trusted.
While I'm thankful our President had the discernment to pull the trigger on the raid, his administration has been terribly silent on this situation with the doctor. If I were Romney I'd add this talking point ("the President has a pattern of leaving troops behind") and run him into the ground with it. -
We had to know this would happen. We should have taken measures to safeguard him and his family.
But then, Obama has been consistent about peeing on our allies and kissing the fourth point of contact of our enemies. -
Jedi Knight Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Obama takes the credit while this man got 30 years for helping.
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"The bill would provide just under $1 billion in aid to Pakistan, including $184 million for State Department operations and $800 million for foreign assistance. Counterinsurgency money for Pakistan would be limited to $50 million."
Cutting 30 million from a billion isn't really much more than a slap on the wrist. -
The next number in the series is called a quadrillion, which is a thousand trillion. I would not be surprised in our lifetimes to see that number creep into the news. Those type of figures stagger the imagination. Well, we have a deficit of nearly ten trillion, so in pennies, we have already reached a quadrillion.
I just knew that post would fascinate you.