Today apparently the USA withdrew a donation to Pakistan of £300 million, this has been in addition to the 1 billion a year over the past ten years to help keep the army on the alert.
It would seem that the US think the Pakistanis have been less than vigilent by allowing Osama bin Laden to live next to their largest Millitary base for the past 8 years without 'finding' him; and now the Pakistanis are mad because the American Commandos invaded their soil to capture and kill him without telling the Pakistani government. Whatever the whys and wherefores of the arguments how can we ever understand those vast sums of money? Now the Pakistanis say they don't need the money so we might think as there is a famine in Ethiopia of catastophic preportions and thousands of people are dying; the money that the Pakistanis 'do not need' might simply be given to the aid agencies and put to better use in Africa - but no my mind is far too simple. All the mighty brains have to get together on many occasions to discuss where these huge sums of money might be redirected and that will take many more years than it did to direct it to Pakistan in the first place.
What a crazy world we live in.
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