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| US alliance with Musharraf runs its course: CSIS |
| 2007-02-28 |
| A report released on Monday by researchers at the United States-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) suggested that Washington seriously consider the possibility that its post-9/11 relationship with Pakistan has run its course. In an article for the spring issue of The Washington Quarterly magazine, Craig Cohen and Derek Chollet noted that while the White House’s strategy of enlisting Pakistan as a frontline ally against Qaeda and resurgent Taliban militants “has forestalled disaster for five-plus years ... there is no Plan B”. Yet, they warned, the “costs of crisis in Pakistan are too great to live without workable options”. They said that it was therefore “worth asking whether US policy has reached its limits” and was “now being guided more by inertia than strategy”, raising the possibility that “US alliance with Musharraf may have run its course”. The report said while the US had given Pakistan more than US $10 billion in military, economic and development assistance in the five years since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, there was “little accountability in how Pakistan spends US money”. Many key officials in American agencies did not know the full extent of assistance provided. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 the US had given Pakistan more than US $10 billion in military, economic and development assistance in the five years since the Sept 11, 2001 attacks Best $100,000 ever spent by Pakistanis. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-02-28 10:42 |
| #2 Bush has done a heck of a lot to help insure several things: 1) Pakistan is allied with us, not China. 2) After the Chinese built the Paks a great big modern deep water port, the US Navy gets to use it too. 3) We still want Perv to run his whole country, not just parts of it. 4) We cooled down the nuclear fuss with them and India, and it will stay that way. For every annoyance that Pakistan gives us, we get a lot of good in return. We know that Perv is in much the same position as Damocles, but if we can slowly tip the balance so he becomes strong, eventually he *can* put the blocks to the bad guyz in his country. But it is a friggin' process. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-02-28 09:50 |
| #1 Blah, blah, blah. And what are YOUR alternatives oh great and wonderful OZ? In case you forgot, Pakiwaki has the bomb. Other than supporting Perv what / who will keep that out of the hands of the ISI Islamofascists? I don't like Perv, but, I've heard of no good alternative, have you? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2007-02-28 08:54 |