{"id":195639,"date":"2008-06-25T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/2-billion-in-unaccounted-aid-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T10:09:00","slug":"2-billion-in-unaccounted-aid-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/25\/2-billion-in-unaccounted-aid-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"$2 billion in Unaccounted Aid in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pakaid25-2008jun25,0,5467209.story\">Typical<\/a>.  Money that was supposed to be spent on counter-terrorism was spent on&#8230;lord knows what.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Pakistan has been spending our money down south, to counter the Indians, as opposed to up north, where the Taliban is, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I am compelled to make the repeat the <a href=\"http:\/\/d-squareddigest.blogspot.com\/2003_02_23_d-squareddigest_archive.html#89796111\">wisest thing that I&#8217;ve read this century<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But it does inspire in me the desire for a competition; can anyone, particularly the rather more Bush-friendly recent arrivals to the board, give me one single example of something with the following three characteristics:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is a policy initiative of the current Bush administration<\/li>\n<li>It was significant enough in scale that I&#8217;d have heard of it (at a pinch, that I should have heard of it)<\/li>\n<li>It wasn&#8217;t in some important way completely f#$@ed up during the execution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously. I&#8217;ve yet to see anything wiser yet, and I&#8217;m using the loose definition of the 21st century which includes the year 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical. Money that was supposed to be spent on counter-terrorism was spent on&#8230;lord knows what. Of course Pakistan has been spending our money down south, to counter the Indians, as opposed to up north, where the Taliban is, anyway. Once again, I am compelled to make the repeat the wisest thing that I&#8217;ve read this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,970,1151,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-corruption","category-south-asia","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}