The U.S. and Pakistan: Partnership in Crisis

INSS Insight No. 259, May 29, 2011
Schweitzer, Yoram and Barak, Dan

The killing of Osama Bin Laden by American Navy SEALs forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan in early May represents a new peak in the ongoing tension between the United States and Pakistan regarding the issue of combating terror in general, and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas within Pakistan’s sovereign territory in particular. Nevertheless, at this stage, the two sides are avoiding an irreparable divide based on their clear mutual interests: Pakistan needs the economic support of the United States and aims to prevent unilateral American backing for India, Pakistan’s bitter rival, and the United States needs comprehensive Pakistani assistance in the war against regional and international terrorist elements – the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and al-Qaeda – whose ability to act against the interests of the United States is dependent, to a large extent, on Pakistan’s policy toward them.

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  2. Yamit wrote:

    We had a lot of help from the Boss upstairs.

    G-d definitely stands w/his people against the rock-worshiping, psychopathic hordes of the Mid-East.

  3. Wher is the commonality of interests between the U.S. and pakistan

    Maybe the commonality is that US politicians are getting kickbacks from the Pakistani Muslo-nazis they pay off
    in Pakistan.

    I have yet to meet a SINGLE US citizen that wants to pay the goddamn, Pakistani Muslo-nazis ANYTHING, which
    really just goes to show you how corrupt US politicians are.

  4. Kufar Dawg says:
    May 30, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    It’s all about oil, money and power,nothing else.

    But the above doesn’t make it right Yamit. US politicians are rotten to the
    goddamn core.

    BTW, Yamit I’d like to say I support, admire and respect what you and Israel
    did in the Sinai and Suez in ’73?.

    It’s not a matter of right or wrong it is what is. If you apply the wrong reasons to the problem you will never come up with the right solutions. By falling into the trap of right/ left, conservative/ liberal divisions and not understand that everything is manipulated to enhance divisiveness so that a few can control opinions and events. We are missing the tree because we see only the Forrest. Knowing the truth carries with it responsibilities and people don’t want the responsibility. Obama’s election a case in point but one cold have said similar things about Bush Jr and Clinton. Obama was the most blatant example. Americans voted for an image: a media created persona. It is a safe bet that they will do it again even if it’s not Husein.

    BTW, Yamit I’d like to say I support, admire and respect what you and Israel
    did in the Sinai and Suez in ’73?.

    We had a lot of help from the Boss upstairs.

  5. It’s all about oil, money and power,nothing else.

    But the above doesn’t make it right Yamit. US politicians are rotten to the
    goddamn core.

    BTW, Yamit I’d like to say I support, admire and respect what you and Israel
    did in the Sinai and Suez in ’73’.

  7. Kufar Dawg says:

    Does any US citizen (i.e. non-politician) support shelling out $20 billion a year in US taxpayer dollars to support an Islamofascist state?

    20 BILLION? Peanuts, that’s 5 days of interest payments on Americas quad-zillion debt.

    Everyone I’ve talked to indicates they don’t want to be supporting any Islamofascist state that trains/equips/supports
    Islamofascist terrorism and lies ineptly about doing so.

    It’s all about oil, money and power,nothing else.

  8. Does any US citizen (i.e. non-politician) support shelling out $20 billion a year in US taxpayer dollars to support an Islamofascist state?

    Everyone I’ve talked to indicates they don’t want to be supporting any Islamofascist state that trains/equips/supports
    Islamofascist terrorism and lies ineptly about doing so.

  11. Have I got news for all of you.

    We may be on the treshold of WW3: New alliances: Pakistan/China/Russia….Pakistan/ Saudi Arabia/ Russia.

    Palistan besides being Nuke power, controls the supply lines of the US military to Afghanistan. America is attempting to do in Pakistan what they did in the Balkans but through

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  12. United States needs comprehensive Pakistani assistance in the war against regional and international terrorist elements – the Taliban, the Haqqani Network, and al-Qaeda – whose ability to act against the interests of the United States is dependent, to a large extent, on Pakistan’s policy toward them.

    This sentence makes no sense at all. It’s as if Pakistan has to decide whether to fight these guys – who are in fact their “own folks” – fully, not-so-fully, or just a little, on behalf of the US. If the US were to accept the fact that any fighting on its behalf by Pakistan would be at best half-hearted, it would save a lot of time and effort, as well as foolish expectations. And it would provide something that seems to be in short supply these days: clarity.