They are trying to cool don and he's getting them all hot?
In an ANGRY way, readers....
"Kerry pushes for tougher controls on aid to Pakistan" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 28, 2010
WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry is urging the State Department to tighten controls over $1.45 billion in aid to Pakistan this year, warning that if the money is squandered or stolen, a massive five-year effort to help Pakistanis could collapse.
Then we will just have to occupy, huh, John?
“Among the Pakistani population there is already a fear that the funds will merely enrich the corrupt elite,’’ the Massachusetts Democrat wrote in a May 25 letter obtained by The Boston Globe. “Channeling so much of the money through untested institutions so quickly could serve to confirm these suspicions.’’
Translation: Kerry's office gave the Globe the letter, but they wrote it as if they went out and did the work of tracking it down.
Must they MISREPRESENT EVERYTHING?
As for TAX FUNDS ENRICHING a CORRUPT ELITE, maybe the Senator shouldn't throw stones from his glass house of AmeriKa.
The aid is part of a landmark, five-year $7.5 billion assistance package to Pakistan that Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pushed through Congress last year. It is aimed at trying to roll back extremism by improving the lives of ordinary citizens through greater access to water, energy, education, and health care, as well as bolstering Pakistan’s fledging democratic government.
Related: Obama's Point Man on Pakistan
The missile strikes are only his way of saying he loves you.
But the letter — Kerry’s most forceful statement yet on how he believes the money should be spent — is a sign of unease among some on Capitol Hill over the administration’s plans for the money.
Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, intends to funnel more than 50 percent of the funds directly through Pakistan’s government or local Pakistani organizations, bypassing the American organizations and companies that the US government usually hires to deliver aid abroad. Holbrooke has said US entities have higher overhead costs and relying on them creates the perception that US aid benefits Americans, rather than the intended recipients.
Related: Holbrooke's Hubris
But Kerry, who has oversight responsibilities over the funds, fears that Pakistani organizations might not be ready yet to effectively spend so much money and that incidents of corruption in Pakistan will make accountability a challenge....
Look, if you don't want to give it to them.....
The letter urges more attention on Pakistan’s criminal justice system and greater coordination with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, which have spent decades trying to build dams and improve water delivery systems in Pakistan.
After blowing them up with Predator drone attacks?
And AmeriKa has no right to lecture anyone about justice.
Wees torture!!!
Kerry also suggested launching a website that tracks how the money is spent.
“This process is still largely opaque to the broader public, including our Pakistani friends and partners,’’ he wrote. “This lack of transparency can generate suspicion and distrust, defeating the core intent’’ of the aid.
Just the way the U.S. GOVERNMENT OPERATES!!!
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