Report: Pakistan ends US use of base for drone attacks - msnbc.com
Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country to launch drone strikes against militant groups, the defense minister was quoted as saying, as ties remain strained between the two countries.
Pakistan has long publicly opposed the missile attacks as a violation of its sovereignty, but has in private given support including intelligence to help target members of al-Qaida and the Taliban in the northwest region along the Afghan border.
The Afghanis are clearly some of the strangest bedfellows politics have made for the United States in recent memory. We give them billions on aid, they give aid and succour to terrorists. We armed them to fight the Soviets, and the mujahedeen re-organize as Taleban.
I saw a funny line on Cartoon Network’s adult swim tonight:
“NASA’s annual budget: $19bn. Cost of air-conditioning tents for the military in the Middle East: $20bn. And that is the story of why we have not flown to Mars.”