More evidence that the Pakistani security establishment doesn’t see eye-to-eye with American priorities:
Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Talk about “diverting” funds strikes me as misleading in this context—the money is necessarily going to be fungible. It’s not as if in the absence of American aid, the Pakistani military would just let the Taliban seize the capital. The underlying issue is that our excessively transactional relationship with Pakistan isn’t producing the kind of bilateral relationship we want.
At any rate, I also think it’s worth noting that nowhere in a story about the new Indian government’s priorities do you see “secret plan to conquer Pakistan.” They’re trying to cope with the global recession, with hundreds of millions of impoverished citizens, etc.
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