Are you really surprised? As long ago as 2008, the New York Times revealed that Pakistan was funneling money it got from the US to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Congress, characteristically, responded by increasing aid to Pakistan. They have played us for suckers for years. “Watch: Pervez Musharraf Says […]
After $28 billion in aid, US still can’t get Pakistan to confront jihadists
One might almost get the idea that there was too much sympathy for the jihadis in the Pakistani government for it to take any significant action against them, and that this money has been wasted due to a refusal to deal realistically with that fact. But such considerations could be “Islamophobic,” and so it is […]