Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (R) shake hands with U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke at the prime minister’s residence in Islamabad June 5, 2009 (Reuters)From Politico:
A senior USAID economist has written a formal dissent memo, obtained by POLITICO, which tells senior State Department officials that Special Representative Richard Holbrooke’s Pakistani aid demands are causing turmoil in the U.S. AID mission in Pakistan and are counterproductive for achieving near-term counterinsurgency goals in the country.
Entitled “Dissent memo: Contradictory objectives for USAID/Pakistan program,” the three-page sensitive but unclassified memo, written by career USAID PhD economist C. Stuart Callison, is dated October 2 and addressed to Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Director of the State Department Policy Planning Office.
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My Comment: The State Department is right .... why should U.S. money go to Pakistani government institutions and organizations that have a long history of abuse, fraud, and corruption, and cutting out long time established U.S. aid groups and organizations.
Something is missing here.
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