U.S.-Pakistan relations on a collision course

[hanibal]

Re: U.S.-Pakistan relations on a collision course

@LucyMay

The perception about Pakistan in the US media is getting worse. I read this article in Vanity Fair recently. They are angry

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/07/osama-bin-laden-201107

An excerpt from the article

*There’s absolutely no mystery to the “Why do they hate us?” question, at least as it arises in Pakistan. They hate us because they owe us, and are dependent upon us. The two main symbols of Pakistan’s pride—its army and its nuclear program—are wholly parasitic on American indulgence and patronage. But, as I wrote for Vanity Fair in late 2001, in a long report from this degraded country, that army and those nukes are intended to be reserved for war against the neighboring democracy of India. Our bought-and-paid-for pretense that they have any other true purpose has led to a rancid, resentful official hypocrisy, and to a state policy of revenge, large and petty, on the big, rich, dumb Americans who foot the bill. *

so why don’t they leave us,withdraw their support for Army and nuclear program…