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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Should USA Cut All Aid to #pakistan?

The United States gives Pakistan about $3 billion a year in aid. That country has not been a very good friend to us lately. Now, Pakistan is reportedly demanding the CIA cut back its presence there and that President Obama stop the drone attacks designed to kill Al Qaeda and the Taliban in the north of Pakistan.

Pakistan, should we cut all aid to that country, Charles? This is what Trump says. Let's get out of there. I mean, they're not helping us out. Why are we giving them $3 billion? What do you say?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think we're getting very near to that point, but it's not for reasons of petulance. It's for reasons of strategy. This is a very weak and double-dealing, duplicitous ally. One of the reasons that we haven't been giving the Pakistanis information about our drone attacks in advance is because we worry. They give so much covert support through their intelligence services to Al Qaeda and to the Taliban that they will warn the bad guys.

We're giving $3 billion to, and they're not much of an ally. I think it's time to get -- to not cut it off but to give them an ultimatum that we will cut it off unless they cut it out and they join us in a serious war on the bad guys. We gave them an ultimatum two days after 9/11: "You help us to fight the Taliban. You allow us to overfly. You cut relations, or," according to Musharraf, what we said to him two days after 9/11, "we bomb you back to the Stone Age."

They will respond to an ultimatum. And if they don't, what we have to say is the magic word: India. "We're leaving the region. We can't win in Afghanistan if you're not going to help us in Pakistan. This is an Indian problem. We'll turn it over to India." They are scared to death of the Indians. They don't want anything to do with India extending its power over Afghanistan or over them. That, I think, will get their attention. If they still won't help us, I'd say cut them off.