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Pakistan Fires Back at Trump Tweet: U.S. Given ‘Nothing but Invective and Mistrust'

2018-01-02

[Breitbart] Pakistani officials insisted they will do no more to help the United States in the war on terrorism on Monday and summoned Washington’s ambassador in response to President Donald Trump’s criticism that the nation had given America "nothing but lies & deceit" in exchange for billions in aid.
Trump accused Pakistan of pocketing aid money meant to help fight the Taliban and other jihadist groups. Pakistan has long faced criticism from both the West and neighbors like Afghanistan and India for allegedly providing "safe havens" for terrorist groups to operate in. Pakistan instead insists that Afghanistan has not done enough to contain the Taliban, and has claimed that India is a state sponsor of terrorism, allegedly harboring violent Hindu extremist groups.

"We have already said ’no more’ to America, so Trump’s ’no more’ has no importance. We are ready to give all account for every single penny to America in public," Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said in a statement in response to Trump on Monday. "The United States should hold its own people accountable for its failures in Afghanistan."

Asif also said that Pakistan is not concerned with the potential of losing billions in American taxpayers’ dollars.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 Withdraw from Afghanistan completely. Forget about trying to set up a democracy there, as long as it's mostly muslims, true democracy will never happen. Just heavily spray roundup on all the fields where poppies are grown and bomb the shit out of the Taliban every times they try to come back, until they're reduced to the point the Afghani army can handle them on their own. If the people cannot or will not have the desire to deal with their own interior issues, why should we?

We've spend so much money there, a lot of, if not most of, which got siphoned off to pockets everywhere except where it's supposed to go. (Last I've heard we've spend over one hundred billon dollars on Afghanistan, why? What did we get for a hundred billion dollars, we sure could use that money here at home.)

I get the feeling we didn't win anything but they did in the long run.

Time we start using that money to pay down the federal deficit and start working toward a zero balanced budget.

All those countries who voted against us can just start paying for their own defenses.

We have plenty of problems and issues of our own here at home that need to be addressed and dealt with using the money we're currently pissing away on other countries issues and wars, to no benefits whatsoever to us (excepts for a few companies for their profits.)

Sure we can lend a helping hand, but with the understanding they make a go of it on their own.

American first, we will help, but there are limits!

/rant

Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-01-02 19:43

#3 But, how are you to supply US forces in Afghanistan, if you can't do it through Pakistan?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-02 16:33

#2 What could they do to make things worse?

Posted by: gorb 2018-01-02 11:43

#1 Apparently it didn't take President Trump long to flush these evil bastids out.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-02 04:30

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