Mrs Butto.....your view frightens me.

We are talking about 1.5 billion, that should be spent on America.
You are unappreciative of the generosity of America, shame on you.

If your main point is "where is the money going?"
.....GO find out....its likely..... a slimy Pakistan officials...please dedicate yourself to fixing that problem....and please don't write about it/if when you do.

I pray your view is not shared by many.....

How do we defend against extremeism then? You fail to offer an answer...

Bhutto is brilliantly myopic. Besides, I thought we grieved irony years ago.

once you become a member of the nuclear club, you lose your right to let your domestic incompetence remain solely a domestic problem. So, regardless of how incompetent Zardari's govt. is, he is the elected and internationally recognized head of a NUCLEAR state. You can cry all you want, but we ain't goin anywhere as long as you have nukes. It's what responsible people of the world want from us and it's a responsibility our govt. has towards our own citizens. We don't care - Musharraff, Bhutto, Zardari, some future military dictator - as long as they have the keys to the nukes, we are going to go to great lengths to support and influence them. And if it looks like the Taliban is on the verge of overtaking the country, then you can be certain of this - the USA, along with China, Russia and all of Europe, will unite militarily to prevent that from happening. So, Pakistani's are free to have whatever kind of political system they want, but when it comes to nukes the world will not stand by as fringe terrorists seek to gain control of weapons that can destroy entire populations.

My, aren't we just a bowl full of cheer today!

For those of us who believe in Diplomacy (and there are few of us left), it seems more relevant now that Pakistan join forces with India, who itself has been victimized by Terrorism, in a common struggle to teach and repudiate those responsible for the carnage.

None of this ever comes to any sense in the end. People just get killed, populations are dislodged, the innocent get trampled, and as Fatima points out, the terrorists simply move to another Region of the Country. Maybe the only good news here is that the conflict is farther from major metropolitan areas, so fewer people will be impacted....but that's only a minor blessing in the context of a greater scourge.

Not to always be pulling a page from Kissinger's book, but the Hedgemony of Great Powers in the Region is usually and most reliably the correct solution. Like the United Nations itself, it creates the proper balance of the right to rule with the ability to chastise those who act in defiance of Law. Certainly, we still have our own problems in this Country just trying to affect use of our Constitution in ordinary life, but what Pakistan faces is far more dire and severe. So also should be the care imposed and providing a solution. Hedgemony is one of the great truths of governance. It must be applied at every opportunity, or it will more naturally apply itself in distended and unwelcome ways.

Bhutto's family is notoriously corrupt too, and the ruling classes of Pakistan have about as much moral currency as the ruling classes of Haiti.

The Pakistan government created the Taliban. They're suffering now over it, but so is the rest of the world.

I feel sorry for people getting blown up in Pakistan, but for once - it's hardly our fault. And if they don't get a handle on those crazy people, they're going to lose their country. And it'll be nobody's fault but theirs.

you all miss the real reason Sir Edmund Hillary was sent there by 0bama. To hopefully make her "underfire" statements come true. Give him a reason to get his failures and dismal poll numbers off of the airwaves. Mostly to keep from having to put her on the ticket in 2012 because he's proved to be a joke, or worse, even run against him when he refuses too.

Fatima..Hillary Clinton will be happy to leave your bereft country when you give her back all the billions of dollars the United States (and her taxpayers) have provided in aid. Until you put your money where your crude, rude and trash talking mouth is, go away and wait for the Taliban to let you publish your enlightened diplomatic comments on one of their freedom loving and feminist blogs.

I thought the world was gonna love us?

You know, I try to be polite, fair, and reasonable on my posts here. I must for once betray that stance: FUCK that STUPID from a CORRUPT ASS FAMILY BIATCH. I remember the scenes from her beloved festoon of a shit-hole cu-Karachi of people dancing in the streets in the aftermath of 9/11. I'll never forget the bitch with the square black glasses writhing as if in orgasmic bliss. So, once again, FUCK HER unapreciative ass. All the more reason for us to get the hell out of DODGE. I care less who started this war Bush/Obama don't mean a thing. What an asshole. Her whole family is CORRUPT. Whew, I feel better now and will resume being objective & nice. Thank You

Dear Fatima Bhutto,

Since you're so well connected to the Pakistan regime, perhaps you can convince them to sell us all of your country's nuclear weapons in exchange for a huge lump sum of freshly printed dollars that can be used for whatever the heck it wants to, except to fund terrorist organizations that come back to haunt both of us and except for anything having to do with nuclear weapons.

Of course, that mean that Pakistan couldn't use it to fund its intelligence services, since they are essentially terrorist organizations, albeit ones cloaked with the facade of legitimacy by the Pakistani government, which itself is cloaked with the facade of legitimacy because the Pakistani military says so, which itself is cloaked with facade of spiffy uniforms.

If the Pakistani government agrees to do that, then we'll leave the region and never trouble your country again, as long as it abides by the terms above. Remember, we don't really give a hoot about Pakistan these days, except for the nuclear weapons it's never really needed in its dealing with India.

I read your Wikipedia entry. Interesting family that you hail from. It's like something out of the realm of Shakespeare. A lot more interesting than my family, who were mostly killed by black lung, barroom gunfights, and congestive heart failure.

Wikipedia quotes you as saying: "I don't believe in birth-right politics. I don't think, nor have I ever thought, that my name qualifies me for anything."

Is that accurate? Or has Wikipedia been once again victimized by false information?

Yours in a regretful alliance of convenience,
Whipmawhopma

P.S. - It might have escaped your notice, but Ms. Clinton was made Secretary of State to keep her from being at home yet in arm's reach. American politics don't ya know. Expect to be seeing more of her until Pakistan gets this Taliban thing under control.

Let me get this straight:
Your "government," until recently, was a general.
We held our collective nose, but supported him.
You complained.
Moreover, you fought in the streets to rid yourselves of this military dictator.
We supported you.

Your new government is too weak to stand up to your military.
Still, we support them, and by extension, you.
Still, you complain.

What the hell DO you want? Military dictatorship? Theocracy?
Believe you me, there is nothing the US would rather do than get the hell out of there and let you guys fight over which Invisible Super Hero From Outer Space is the correct one to worship.

We're just afraid you'll start selling your nukes to the highest bidder.

Oh. Wait. You already did that. Yeah, we'll be around a while. Poor you, what with Hillary standing up for Pakistani women and all.

But seriously, tell us what it is you want. You can't possibly be complaining about this:

"While Pakistan will be flush with development dollars, we will have to send the U.S. government detailed reports regarding our armed forces, including assessments of the civilian control of our very independent army, updates on our prevention of nuclear proliferation, and expertise and analysis of how much we have expanded or diminished our nuclear programs."

Um, "waaaaaaah"?

You want us to demand more open government? What's it been, maybe ten hours since somebody blew up hundreds of Pakistani women in the street? HELP US. The only way you get open government is if your people are safe. And the only way they become safe is to stop the thugs blowing up women and children. Pakistanis know who and where they are. When you're ready to stop making shit up about our "war on Islam," and ready to stop making excuses for these people, they'll be put behind bars where they belong. And then we can talk about open government. In the meantime, we're gonna keep an eye on those nukes, thanks.

Ms Bhutto, you can whine about the state of Pakistans sovereignty and try to link the evil bombing to Sec. Clinton and the U.S. efforts to bring stability and responibility to the regions but remember the attacks on this country origionated in that part of the world by a relentless evil movement that has been protected and preserved in large part by sympathy within Pakistan. You can despise American efforts but remember at all times that if the Taliban and AQ ever get there hands on your sovereeignty and your nukes that the US would be absolutely required to surgically strike with the ultimate force to insure that those who have declared war on us can never launch a nuclear strike. If you think the blood bath in the recent bombing was horrendous, you would not want to see what a preventative nuclear strike would look like. With nuclear weapons comes responsibility, the same responsability which maintains the sovereignty of other nations possessing nuclear weapons. Pakistan should clean their own act up without US aid, but it seems to me to be an unreal expectation with the culture that exist there now struggling for control of nuclear weaponry.