To the contrary, it's Mr. Trump that is the odd-man-out. Witness the Republican Party controlled Senate vote in favour of the latest F-16 deal with Pakistan. Most Democrats and Republicans understand the importance of Pakistan but Trump is of a completely different stripe. His foreign policy beliefs are based on pure emotion and prejudice with no thought of America's historic security ties.
You seem to be committing the fallacy of arguing from ignorance:
Sorry, don't watch Fox.
Most relevant to Pakistan is that the Carter Administration, led by the dispossessed Polish aristocrat and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, subtly encouraged the U.S.S.R. to invade Afghanistan, seeing the country as "Russia's Vietnam" - a trap for its military that would sink the Soviet economy. Z.B. knew that the I.S.I. under Bhutto had already established a guerilla presence in Afghanistan.
Pakistan was under embargo until mid-1982. Until then the arms came from Israel with the U.S. as conduit, while money came from the Saudis. But Pakistan was in the driver's seat the whole way.
I understand the importance of Pakistan. I don't understand the importance of Pakistan getting more F-16s.
You seem to be committing the fallacy of arguing from ignorance:
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Sorry, don't watch Fox.
Most relevant to Pakistan is that the Carter Administration, led by the dispossessed Polish aristocrat and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, subtly encouraged the U.S.S.R. to invade Afghanistan, seeing the country as "Russia's Vietnam" - a trap for its military that would sink the Soviet economy. Z.B. knew that the I.S.I. under Bhutto had already established a guerilla presence in Afghanistan.
Pakistan was under embargo until mid-1982. Until then the arms came from Israel with the U.S. as conduit, while money came from the Saudis. But Pakistan was in the driver's seat the whole way.
The Chinese say, "Feed a man to fish and you've fed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you've fed him for life." The Chinese do not say that you are forever responsible for his actions afterwards - Pakistanis' justification for blaming America for everything that goes wrong, including their own choices.
I understand the importance of Pakistan. I don't understand the importance of Pakistan getting more F-16s.
the deal was in favour by 71 and opposed by 24 and 5 no shows. the list of who voted what
Except Pakistan would be preparing for something that is not likely to happen. 1. Trump is most likely, not only NOT going to win the election, he will destroy the Republican Party at the national level in the process. 2. If by some fluke, he does get elected president, he would face tough opposition for much of what he has campaigned on in foreign policy, in the Congress. Don't confuse the bigoted rantings of Trump for what Congress thinks, or our armed forces, or the American people.
It's less than five years old and goes back seventy years. In context you have no grounds for complaint that I see.
It is indeed a fantasy that Pakistanis like yourself treasure. It isn't pleasant to accept that Pakistan currently behaves morally worse than most other nations but the evidence is all around you: abused minorities, terrorism, the departure of East Pakistan, the honoring of assassins by lawyers, the orders to universities to refrain from teaching anything that threatens the "ideology" of Pakistan, and so on. You are a creature that lives in denial. Pointing this out makes you more angry than amused, yet it's necessary if your condition, and those of like-minded Pakistanis, is to be treated.
Then just say no!
How does that make sense? If the "Pakistani establishment" knows about such cells then they are compromised and mostly useless, yes? Whereas if they don't know about such cells then there's no need to provide the F-16s.
Not by a long shot. You are confusing his success in primaries with relatively tiny numbers of activist voters to the only election that matters, the General Election. Trump loses in virtually every poll in a one on one match-up with Clinton. Trump has the highest percentage of Americans ever polled, who say they will not vote for him under any circumstance. And when Trump says bigoted things like, "All Muslims should be banned from entering the country.", the overwhelming majority of American people opposed him.
