You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
India-Pakistan
Resolution to stop aid moved in US Congress
2011-09-29
[Dawn] US politicians are continuing their assault on Pakistain here and quietly moved a resolution in Congress, asking for cutting all but nuclear-safety assistance to the country.
Tell us again how much you don't like us, you rat bastards.
The move contrasts sharply with recent efforts by US and Pak governments aimed at reducing tensions over Islamabad's alleged links to the Haqqani network of hard boys.

On Monday evening, US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistain, Marc Grossman, spoke with Ambassador Husain Haqqani and conveyed Washington's desire to deescalate tensions.

Mr Grossman is believed to have told the ambassador that "the US considers Pakistain an ally and despite challenges and disagreements will continue to work with the country's democratic leadership".

Also on Monday, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh met US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides and both agreed to resolve the dispute through "diplomatic means", official sources said.

"Mr Nides agreed that current adversarial heights and the war of words need to be reduced," said a diplomatic source.

In another move aimed at de-escalation, Mr Grossman and Ambassador Haqqani plan to address a joint news conference on Wednesday and talk about the efforts both sides have so far made to overcome the crisis.

But temperatures remain high in both chambers of the US Congress where politicians continue to attack Pakistain, with some even suggesting that Washington should now encourage India to take a higher profile in Afghanistan.

The current crisis in bilateral relations began last week after scathing remarks by Admiral Mike Mullen, outgoing Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who spoke openly of the links between Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence and the Haqqani network.

Soon after the admiral's statement, Congressman Ted Poe, a Republican from Texas, tabled H. R. 3013, also known as the Pakistain Accountability Act, a piece of legislation which, if passed by Congress, will freeze all US aid to Pakistain with the exception of funds that are designated to help secure nuclear weapons.
Posted by:Fred

#9  This is a stupid move.

The administration needs to learn how to not aggravate situations worse. The STUPID Congress needs to focus on keeping the USA from becoming Argentina, not helping S*** for brains POTUS piss off the few "allies" we have left. Intel is important and any lead in is better than none.
Posted by: newc   2011-09-29 22:43  

#8  Then there is the unfettered drugs weapon that an Islamic victory will bring.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165

Already arrived and in full bloom (no pun intended).
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-09-29 16:56  

#7  I believe that by year end no Pakistani logistics will be required. Depending on the Russians for 50% or more has its own downside but they have incentive to play nice. They are scared stiff that Afghanistan will go all Paki and then the CIS Stans will go into full blown insurgency mode. Then there is the unfettered drugs weapon that an Islamic victory will bring.
Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165   2011-09-29 16:54  

#6  an open invitation to serious shrinkage.

Inventory shrinkage or shrinkage of Pakistain itself?
Posted by: SteveS   2011-09-29 16:43  

#5  Hopefully someone else will chime in then, Besoeker, because I'm not nearly smart nor organized enough to be a logistician, either. I just have time to read, and some bits stick in my memory...

But agreed that running the supplies in via Pakistan is an open invitation to serious shrinkage.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-09-29 15:54  

#4  I'm not a logistician TW, I hope what you've seen is correct. The news I am getting relates to the continued theft, and break-ins of sealand containers, missing military items, and exploding fuel tankers. If the logistics strategy is to move toward India, that's a good thing. Russia, possibly not so much.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-09-29 11:45  

#3  Besoeker, aren't we sending ever more supplies via Russia and India and such? I thought I read somewhere that we are aiming to reduce the supply line through Pakistan to practically nothing, or have I misunderstood?
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-09-29 09:24  

#2  They have a very strange and quite different sense of gratitude.

Don't you mean a sense of right and wrong?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-09-29 01:40  

#1  And when the Paks decide not to let us ship our Afghan war materials and supplies over their LOC's, (ports and roads) then what? Is this the administration plan, cripple our logistics and re-supply capability, bring everyone home, and blame the Paks?

Should never have funded the bastids anyway. Buying friends is not the answer, particularly Islamic friends. They have a very strange and quite different sense of gratitude.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-09-29 00:39  

00:00