U.S. Might Eliminate Up To $800 Million in Military Aid to Pakistan

We should not be giving these people the money to buy guns and weapons that they would surely use against us and our interests.

Count me in the I Think This is a Good Idea column and the #AboutTime meme. Pakistan is not our friend. They might not be our greatest enemy, but they are, most assuredly, not our friend.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is suspending and, in some cases, canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to the Pakistani military, in a move to chasten Pakistan for expelling American military trainers and to press its army to fight militants more effectively.

Coupled with a statement from the top American military officer last week linking Pakistan’s military spy agency to the recent murder of a Pakistani journalist, the halting or withdrawal of military equipment and other aid to Pakistan illustrates the depth of the debate inside the Obama administration over how to change the behavior of one of its key counterterrorism partners.

Altogether, about $800 million in military aid and equipment, or over one-third of the more than $2 billion in annual American security assistance to Pakistan, could be affected, three senior United States officials said.

This aid includes about $300 million to reimburse Pakistan for some of the costs of deploying more than 100,000 soldiers along the Afghan border to combat terrorism, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in training assistance and military hardware, according to half a dozen Congressional, Pentagon and other administration officials who were granted anonymity to discuss the politically delicate matter.

The US Government giving $800 million to Pakistan is almost as stupid as the US Government giving machine guns to Mexican drug cartels so that they can then shoot US Border Patrol Agents dead with those same Eric Holder-supplied guns.

We should quit doing that too, by the way.