NATO trucks crossing Pakistan’s border
Andrew Korybko, Oriental Review: Is America About To Officially Dump Pakistan As An “Ally”?
Republican Congressman Andy Biggs just put forth House Resolution 73 seeking to remove Pakistan’s designation as a “major non-NATO ally”, which would eliminate its privileged military cooperation with the US that’s already been put under strain over the past year since Trump decided to suspend various sorts of aid to the country and decried it for supposedly not doing enough to fight terrorism. Biggs wants to make any reclassification of Pakistan as a “major non-NATO ally” contingent on the President proving to Congress that the country is fighting the so-called “Haqqani Network” that’s bedeviled the US for years, suggesting that this initiative might have something to do with once again scapegoating Pakistan for the latest setback to the incipient US-Taliban peace process.
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WNU Editor: This Congressional resolution is not going to pass.
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It does make you think; why not leverage the aid to get them to take on the issues. I mean even without the aid they are benefiting from the massive trucking industry moving stuff from the Indian Ocean to Afghanistan.
Let me think...... Leveraging aid against an already unreliable partner who is continually drifting more into China's sphere of influence isn't going to work they way you think it will.
If you read this blog or just about any others you should be familiar with the "aid from china comes with no strings attached, unlike the US" theme. Pakistan isn't some magical free thinking country that is going to have an epiphany if the us tries again to pull the withholding aid until you act better card. IMO pull all aid from them and use it to try and pull India more into the us sphere. For me it boils down to, if we go to war with china which country would be the more likely to side with us in the fight? Pakistan or India?
Pakistan was/is the only logistical option for the cost effective "for the afghan theater" transportation of non emergency/war fighting goods. Afghan is landlocked and the supply routes from the north are not as established as they are from Pakistan.
You are a troll? I was bored.
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