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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I've set it to "Everyone"
Again - apologies on that
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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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The US should have offered that doctor sanctuary long ago, it's pure negligence IMO that they didn't.
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