Finally, something we all could have predicted

The New York Times details the billions of dollars we have dumped, without requirements, upon Pakistan over the years to "our buddy", Musharraf.

And within the article this, completely predictable nugget:

Today, with several billion more in aid scheduled for the coming years, American officials estimate it will take at least three to five years to train and equip large numbers of army and Frontier Corps units, a paramilitary force now battling militants.

“I don’t forecast any noticeable impact,” a Defense Department official said. “It’s pretty bleak.”

The program’s failures appear to be a sweeping setback for the administration as it approaches its final year in office. American intelligence officials say they believe that Mr. Bush is likely to leave office in January 2009 with the Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden still at large.

“We haven’t had a good lead on his exact whereabouts in two years,” another senior American military official lamented recently.

Just think how bad this would be if we had wasted billions or trillions of dollars elsewhere at the same time?

…what?

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