$10 ***billion***???? Ok, I know the link is to an Indian news source and they are a little bias, no doubt, against Pakistan, so maybe the amount is wrong?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/US_aid_to_Pak_to_have_terror_rider/articleshow/3806126.cmsThe Bush administration is preparing to present president-elect Barack Obama with a lengthy, classified strategy review aimed at
reversing the gains that militants have made in destabilizing Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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The review contains an array of options, including telling Pakistan’s military that billions of dollars in American aid will depend on the military’s being reconfigured to effectively fight militants.
That proposal amounts to a tacit acknowledgment that roughly $10 billion in military aid provided to Pakistan as “reimbursements” for its efforts to root out militant groups has largely been wasted. Revamping the aid to the military was part of a three-month study of what has gone wrong in the seven-year war along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The study calls for a new and broadly regional approach to insurgencies that move freely across the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the short term, it calls for continued covert strikes into Pakistani territory.
The report, which is expected to be presented to Obama’s top national security advisers, was the product of a highly unusual strategy review that was begun in mid-September.
“We’ve gone seven long years proclaiming that Pakistan was an ally and that it was doing everything we asked in the war on terror,” said one senior official behind the report. “And the truth is that $10 billion later, they still don’t have the basic capacity for counterinsurgency operations. What we are telling Obama and his people is that has to be reversed.”
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