U.S. Policy: Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

I have said it many times before and now with yet a new "partner" infested with fleas, it bears repeating.  The U.S. has always bought it friends. They gave few if any real friends.  Trouble is, that even then, when the U.S. is done using them, or when "they" stop doing our bidding,  the U.S.discards them like yesterdays news.

Its no secret, i hope, that the U.S. has in the past gotten in bed with the likes of Saddam Hussein, and  Osama Bin Laden, supplying both with arms,  training and money to fight enemies of the U.S.  of course once the relationship soured, as it always does. they too became our enemies

 The newest member on our naughty list is Pakistan.

the U.S., which has provided billions of dollars in military assistance to Islamabad since 2001 to help fight the Taliban.  But a recent report stated, the country's powerful Inter Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, continues to work closely with the Taliban and is even represented on the group's leadership council.

Many analysts have suggested in the past that current or former ISI officials have maintained links to the Taliban. But the report offers one of the strongest cases that assistance to the group is official ISI policy, and even extends to the highest levels of the Pakistani government.

"Pakistan's apparent involvement in a double-game of this scale could have major geopolitical implications and could even provoke U.S. countermeasures," said the report, which was written by Matt Waldman, a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

U.S. countermeasures???  Ha, thats a joke. Pakistan is a nyclear power and as such, there is nothing we can do to intimidate them physically. Sure we could wipe them out, but at what Global cost?  Sure we could again ally ourselves with our old friend India.  She is all too willing to do our bidding against Pakistan. BUT both are nuclear powers, and arguably unstable powers at best.  So that risk makes it a no-go.

Our only recourse is one that i have always maintained is the perfect solution to all greedy nations,including and especially the U.S.

  Hurt them in their pockets, financially. With Pakistan, remove all monetary support.  trouble with this is that the government would no doubt collapse and then we risk NUKES falling into even more radical, unstable hands. But we can at least threaten them with withdrawal of monetary support and see where that goes

But with the U.S. there is little risk. We already had the most unstable government the previous 8 years, and the world, tho less well off is still intact.  as long as we dont elect our own religious extremists (christian evangelicals)  we will remain mostly stable.  unfortunately tho, that is exactly the plan for the next presidential election in the U.S.

But computers run the world today. Dont attack innocent people as so often happens in a traditional war. Instead, go after the computers that run everything.

knock out computers, knock out satellites, knock out communication, knock out power grids,  knock out financial services.  With not one shot fired at a human being, you can destroy the world as we know it. or at least destroy that part of the world affected by these measures..

 Why do you think we want to put weapons capable of destroying anti-satellite weapons in poland? and why do you think Russia is so opposed?  and why do yo think China is developing the technology to destroy satellites? because satellites are our eyes and ears,  the brains of our current world