microverses
03-04-2009, 03:57 AM
On my evening google news browse, this article caught my eye:
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSN02279665._CH_.2400
By Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan must be central to U.S. policy on Afghanistan and needs up to $50 billion over the next five years to avoid an economic meltdown that risks turning the country over to Islamic extremists, said a report released on Thursday.
The report by a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration said Washington must also act to strengthen civilian government in Pakistan and persuade Islamabad to stop using militant groups as an instrument of foreign policy.
The Asia Society, whose chairman was Richard Holbrooke until he was appointed U.S. special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan in January, convened a task force to compile the report: "Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan."
I'm omitting the rest of the wall of text here.
my little gears turning led me here:
http://www.connectusfund.org/events/discussion-back-brink-strategy-stabilizing-afghanistan-pakistan
then led me here:
http://www.asiasociety.org/about/
Just thought some of you might find this interesting. Of course I could have gone straight to the society from the first article, however I was looking to download this report myself. Can't find that though tonight.
So I guess the plan is to use dollars to free the world after all. What happens when as 'freedom' is poured over the earth and the 'bad guys' have less places to flee to? Do they suddenly become converted, or suddenly become dead - one by one? Dollars, not just for soda pops.
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSN02279665._CH_.2400
By Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan must be central to U.S. policy on Afghanistan and needs up to $50 billion over the next five years to avoid an economic meltdown that risks turning the country over to Islamic extremists, said a report released on Thursday.
The report by a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration said Washington must also act to strengthen civilian government in Pakistan and persuade Islamabad to stop using militant groups as an instrument of foreign policy.
The Asia Society, whose chairman was Richard Holbrooke until he was appointed U.S. special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan in January, convened a task force to compile the report: "Back from the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan."
I'm omitting the rest of the wall of text here.
my little gears turning led me here:
http://www.connectusfund.org/events/discussion-back-brink-strategy-stabilizing-afghanistan-pakistan
then led me here:
http://www.asiasociety.org/about/
Just thought some of you might find this interesting. Of course I could have gone straight to the society from the first article, however I was looking to download this report myself. Can't find that though tonight.
So I guess the plan is to use dollars to free the world after all. What happens when as 'freedom' is poured over the earth and the 'bad guys' have less places to flee to? Do they suddenly become converted, or suddenly become dead - one by one? Dollars, not just for soda pops.