U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

American VoicesOpinion May 25, 2012

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location. What do you think?

  • “Why should everyone in Pakistan have to suffer for one doctor’s foolish decision to rid the nation of a mass murderer?”

    Caroline Kellman –
    Heat Reader

  • “Now they know they need to shape up if they want to hold on to the other $1.47 billion of their aid.”

    Joe Hallier –
    Systems Analyst

  • “I would have voted against it. But only because I get aroused by people yelling at me.”

    Tom Affleck –
    Lithographic Platemaker

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