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But any AfPak strategy does require that our political leaders at least name, declare Pakistan to be a state sponsor of terrorism.
To my knowledge, no NATO leader has yet done that. It's treating Pakistan with kid gloves and paying them billions of dollars which is making the war in Afghanistan so difficult to bring to a successful conclusion and simply withdrawing and allowing the Taliban to re-take Afghanistan would be a serious defeat for us all, Americans, British, the West, Afghans - even Pakistanis have more to gain in the long run by having their own military brought into proper democratic control by a regime change war.
Declaring Pakistan to be a state sponsor of terrorism is not going to happen as long as we are giving them $3Billion dollar in aid a year. Makes you wonder why? It should be more than enough proof that we should as they say cut our losses and run. No sense in throwing good money after bad.
U.S. Aid to Pakistan Cost: $2,965,029,000*
Pakistan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. assistance. Nearly $3 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan is planned for fiscal 2012. About $1.6 billion of the FY2012 funds are security-related and most of the remaining $1.4 billion is for economic development. Pakistan has received over $20 billion in military and non-military aid since 2001. About $9 billion of that total went to reimburse Pakistan for its expenses incurred in supporting U.S. military operations.
U.S. Aid to Pakistan (FY2012 Request)