Pakistan's Terror Addiction How Your Tax Dollars Kill Our Troops

Let me be blunt: Any member of Congress who, at this point, votes to approve additional aid dollars for Pakistan will have the blood of our troops on his or her hands. No excuses. We’re paying the Pakistanis to kill or cripple the finest young people we’ve got. That’s what it comes down to, folks.

Why does this go on? Partly, it’s Washington’s sheer mediocrity, the utter lack of serious strategic thought. Attempting to get Washington pols in either party to think about long-term strategy is like trying to get a junkie to focus on his retirement plan.

But the primary reason this grim charade of pretending that the Pakistanis are our “allies in the war on terror” continues today is that the Obama administration is struggling desperately to keep the lid on Afghanistan and Pakistan until the 2012 elections. Obama’s starry-eyed policy in Afghanistan has failed comprehensively. His embrace of Pakistan has been a disaster. But he and his deputies will try to keep up the bluff that everything’s just fine, no matter how many young Americans are killed and maimed over the next eighteen months.

Pakistan isn’t a country with an army. It’s an army with a country. A pathetic, powerless figure, “President” Asif Ali Zardari probably didn’t know that his military and intelligence gang was shielding bin Laden. They don’t trust him enough to have told him. But have no doubt: their chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, knew exactly where bin Laden was hidden. Osama was being kept on ice as a strategic resource.

Our entire government goes along with the Pakistani lie that nobody knew anything about bin Laden’s presence. Because it’s just easier that way. Again and again, we’ve found terrorists in the shadow of Pakistani garrisons. Even now, Mullah Omar—Mr. Taliban—and his minions have a base of operations in Quetta, an important Pakistani military city (where I taught classes to Pakistani officers, by the way—I know these murderous clowns).

Pakistani nukes (Is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal vulnerable to terrorists?)? Should we really allow this scumbag outhouse of a poverty-pit country blackmail us (Pakistan- poverty unveiled)? If we had to, we could deal with Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. But it would be even better to throw our weight behind India and let New Delhi do it.

Think the Pakistanis would launch any more terror attacks against India if they thought we wouldn’t be there to stop India from beating the daylights out of them?

We’re such patsies. It’s just unbelievable. Pathetic. Idiotic. Pick your modifier. The most powerful country in the world allows a terrorist state to blackmail us, extort billions from us, and actively help kill our military men and women. Yeah, I know I’m repeating that point about the Pakistanis killing and maiming our troops—but Pakistan’s Taliban buddies keep repeating their attack on our troops (then running back to their safe havens in Pakistan).