http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/23/11827022-pakistan-jails-doctor-who-helped-cia-find-osama-bin-laden?lite Updated at 8:18 a.m. ET: PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden was convicted of high treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison on Wednesday.
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We're not allies. We're business partners. But you don't have to like the people you do business with, a fact that Pakistan is only too keen to remind us of every once in a while.
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And the 70s were pretty much a long time ago. In the 70s the US was firm allies with Iran - that doesn't mean we're allies now. We're no longer really allied with China against Russia. Pakistan is not so much an ally these days, regardless of what the official line is. Both of our countries have experienced shifting strategic objectives - and are drifting in different directions. Pakistan opens its supply routes because we pay them - that makes them a business partner. A shared goal would make us allies, and I don't think that we really have that, regardless of what the official line out of Islamabad is.
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History is valuable, but don't get too caught up in it. People are more interested with what's happening right now than what happened even thirty years ago, and right now the people of Pakistan would like the US gone, not allied.
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2) Then the USA should learn that provoking prolonged guerrilla insurgencies against an occupying force bolstering a weak and incompetent government s a piss-poor way to build stability and if anything is a long-term guarantee of a dystopian nightmare.
3) The claim the USA is seeking stability in the region needs a lot of evidence to bolster it, especially in the wake of current US policies that are achieving directly opposite ends.
4) The USA and Pakistan are still allies now, the claim that they are not rests on vague generalities about Pakistani mindsets and precious little arguments grounded in actual events.
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