Bush offered $115 mln in food aid to Pakistan
“But you’re still not allowed to roast any Taliban on our soil!”-Â U.S. air strike kills al-Qaeda’s “mad scientist”; Pakistan complains
“The strike was too unilateral”, says Pakistani army, and “could be detrimental to bilateral relations.” “U.S. air strike on al-Qaeda hideout lays bare Pakistan’s border,” by Saeed Shah and Graeme Smith, for the Globe and Mail,

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) walks with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani to the White House in Washington July 28, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President George W. Bush offered $115 million over two years in food aid to Pakistan, the White House said on Monday, after he met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
“The president offered $115 million over two years in food aid and $42.5 million of that will be available over the next six to nine months,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters.
* Â Don’t you think there is something seriously wrong with a country that produces nuclear weapons and on the other hand needs to extort money to feed its people?
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Legendary duplicity in Pukestan:
UN diplomat: Pretending that Pakistan is not supporting the Taliban is similar to “pretending that Niagara Falls doesn’t flow”
“Courage, at last,” by Jiti Khanna, for the Globe and Mail, July 29:

Using modern equipment for old fashioned lynching: Taliban
Vancouver — At last, a Western diplomat – Chris Alexander, a former Canadian ambassador now serving as a United Nations special envoy in Kabul – has had enough of the political correctness to publicly acknowledge that Pakistan, through its Inter-Services Intelligence agency, is supporting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan (UN Envoy Backs Karzai Against Pakistan – front page, July 28). “Otherwise we really are pretending that Niagara Falls doesn’t flow.”Â
*Â CIA confronts Pakistan over top-level ties to jihadists
To date, the Western democracies have simply been shooting themselves in the foot by appeasing Pakistan’s government, under whose watch Islamic extremists are spreading their jihad against the Western way of life. (Wow! All the forbidden words: “Jihad”- “Islamic extremists”- are there any other ones? But yes, it could be the beginning of something new…)
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