On Friday 19 Dec 2008 10:12:59 pm Badri Natarajan wrote: > I'm really not grasping why economic success and stability in > Pakistan won't fix the problem
Badri - at the risk of sounding like a saleaman trying to push his wares, the answer can be found in my book - or at least pointers if you actually go back and have a look at it. If you actually read chapters on the people, the economy, the army, wars, islam and jihad (as well as the foreword and last chapter) you will get some idea of why "economic success and stability" never came to Pakistan despite several billions of US dollars in aid in the 1960s, plus a free Air Force of F 86 Sabres and F-104s. The same reasons still hold true in the 21st Century the wealthy United States ensured that Paksiatan hs been given 3 bilion US$ a year up front (half for the armed forces) and several hundreds of millions as protection money to let US convoys through. I wrote that book for a reason - but i can't force people to read it. A country and its history and "behavior" cannot be described in a paragraph or two without resorting to oversimplification and dumbing down of the subject. shiv
