Pakistani-United States Relations

According to Fox News, the United States has agreed to give money again to Pakistan. This is after Pakistan and United States affairs had broken down over the last couple of years. With the new budget just being voted into action and with our debt still rising is it really worth it to give Pakistan money in the first place?

It is said that the U.S will, again, give Pakistan 1.6 billion dollars over the upcoming months for military and economic aid. This is a lot of money to give to a nation that we have had estranged relations with over the last couple years. With the killing of Usama Bin Laden, who was thought to be helped by the Pakistani government, and with U.S drone attacks against Pakistani troops , the relationship between the two countries have been tense and uptight. The relationship between Pakistan and the United States in not fully mended either. This money we were going to give them was going to be “under the table” I guess you could say. This is because Pakistan doesn’t want to become dependent on other allied nations to bail them out of their economic and military affairs, even though the United States has been doing that exact thing ever since the War on Terror in the Middle East began in the early 2000’s.

I wouldn’t say that Pakistan is an “enemy” per say but I don’t see them as necessarily as “friend” either. Relations have been tight and I do not get why we are sending money over to them to help when the relationship is still somewhat heated. Another thing is that America is supposed to be out of the Middle East for the most part. And even though we say we are out of the war in the Middle East, giving money to Middle Eastern countries pretty much keeps us in the action until we decide it’s not worth it to fight anymore. There will never be peace in the Middle East, that’s just how it’s going to be, but the U.S doesn’t need to get in the middle of everything to try to create peace because it will NEVER happen.

With America still in debt, I don’t see the need to give money to a country that we have had an estranged relationship with over the last couple years. Also, if the country is not in danger of a nuclear threat, a dictator, or any other major problem, the United States should just stay out of it and keep to ourselves or we will just be in another war, a war that this country does not need.