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...things [the U.S.] cares about are in his control," says Christine Fair, a South Asia expert at the Rand Corp. Pakistan's security forces and intelligence agencies are hardly answerable to the civilian government. Still, the Obama Administration could at least try to strengthen Zardari's hand. A bill proposed last year by then Senator Joe Biden and Senator Richard Lugar calls for trebling U.S. economic assistance to Pakistan, to $1.5 billion annually for five years, with a possible extension for another five years. The bill enjoys bipartisan support and looks likely to pass. Spent wisely, the money could build...
...making the civilians your bosses.'" In the past, the military has actively undermined every effort to put it under civilian control; expect more of the same. There are not many carrots the U.S. can dangle before Kayani to get him to change old habits. But the Biden-Lugar bill does provide some leverage: it requires $1 billion in military aid to be conditional on more effort by the Pakistani military to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and become more accountable and transparent. The U.S. can nudge Kayani along, says Stephen Cohen, another Brookings expert on South Asia, by providing...
...package; that sound bite was overshadowed by Obama's concession that he had "screwed up" in the Tom Daschle nomination. By the next day, the tax break for filmmakers had vanished, along with plans to subsidize contraception and beautify the National Mall. But even as the bill's backers were promising to whack out more fat when a House-Senate conference committee meets to resolve the two versions of the bill, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was trying to add new deductions for car buyers, and Oklahoma right winger James Inhofe was teaming up with California left winger Barbara Boxer...
...Bill Clinton named him Deputy Attorney General. Holder's decision four years later to facilitate a presidential pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich was a blunder, he later admitted. It revealed the danger that occurs when top officials forget that their job is not to accommodate political masters in the White House--an issue that dominated Holder's confirmation hearing...
...recent weeks, the world has been politely standing by and watching how things play out with the fiscal stimulus and latest bank-bailout plans in Washington. Yes, there's been some grumbling overseas about "buy American" provisions in the stimulus bill, but for the most part, officials elsewhere don't want to step on the toes of a new President to whom they are favorably disposed. They also don't want to endanger legislation that they hope will help jump-start the global economy...