The United States should suspend all assistance to Pakistan.

While I know that this is a PFD topic, I feel that it is still a good one and that I wanted to debate. I'd also like to wish my opponent good luck, and i hope this will be fun.Resolved: The United States should suspend all assistance to Pakistan.1. Pakistan doesn’t want or need economic help.a) Pakistani military doesn’t need US assistance.Ahmed, Issham. "Pakistan Says It Doesn't Need US Military Aid." The Christian Science Monitor, 11 July 2011. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. .Pakistan’s Army said Monday that a US military aid cut worth some $800 million won’t affect its ability to conduct combat operations. Analysts call the cuts the strongest indicator yet of the deteriorating nature of the relationship between the two countries and say it could cause the Pakistani military to retreat to a more hostile anti-US position."The Army in the past, as well as at present, has conducted successful military operations using its own resources without any external support whatsoever,” Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, told the AFP. He added that the Army had not received any official correspondence from the US on the matter.b) Anti-Americanism in Pakistan is growing"Anti-US Sentiment Is 'rife' in Afghanistan and Pakistan." BBC News. BBC, 04 July 2011. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. .there is no doubt that anti-US feeling is growing in the country after a series of appalling incidents. Afghan civilians have been repeatedly killed in night raids by US special forces and mis-targeted bombings by US aircraft while a handful of US soldiers have been charged with deliberately killing Afghans and committing other atrocities.A great deal of public anger and frustration is due to the lack of good governance and overwhelming corruption, which could see the collapse of Kabul Bank - the largest in the country. The Americans are blamed by Afghans for tolerating the failure of the government to get its act together 10 years after 9/11 and for fuelling corruption by giving money to the wrong contractors.In Pakistan the case of the alleged CIA agent Raymond Davis - coupled with an acute economic downturn, massive energy shortages, corruption and the blasphemy issue that has led to two senior officials being murdered - has also led to widespread anti-Americanism. Fast deteriorating Mr Davis was charged with shooting dead two Pakistani men and remained in a Lahore jail for more than a month before his case was resolved.Relatives of the dead Pakistanis accepted "blood money" worth an estimated $2m in exchange for his release - something that the Pakistani legal system allows for. And while the US drone attacks on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan has claimed many Taliban and al-Qaeda lives it has also claimed the lives of Pakistani civilians.All these issues have been overly exploited by the well entrenched Islamist parties and their extremist allies as well as by parts of the right-wing media. 2. Economic and Humanitarian assistance has been a failure.a) Economic assistance is too expensive for our economy.It's All Your Money: U.S. Aid to Pakistan - Fox News." America's Election HQ. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. .More than $20 billion has been given to Pakistan since Sept. 11, 2001. President Obama is proposing almost $3 billion in aid for the supposed ally in the War on Terror for fiscal year 2012. That includes:- $1.6 billion for police and military;- $150 million for what the State Department calls "good government and democracy building";- $122 million for health, AIDS and "family planning";- $145 million for education.The rest goes to economic development and humanitarian assistance.b) Money is diverted.Sumit Ganguly [Director of Research, Center on American & Global Security, Indiana U.], NEWSWEEK INTERNATIONAL, October 19, 2009, pNA, GALE CENGAGE LEARNING, Expanded Academic ASAP. Unfortunately, the Bush administration failed to hold Musharraf's government to account for the nearly $11 billion it received in U.S. aid between 2001 and 2008. The military diverted funds intended for counter-terrorism to obtain arms for use against India, and redirected money earmarked for social development to the military. It failed to meet U.S. benchmarks on counterterrorism, including targets for denying the Taliban sanctuary and aggressively pursuing Al Qaeda. Over time, many Pakistanis who had initially hailed Musharraf's coup turned against him and his principal benefactor, the United States. Their disaffection has only grown in recent months, as the internal battle with the Taliban has become more violent.3. Pakistan has been actively aiding our enemies.a) They provided shelter to those in the Haqqani network.Charles Dent [U.S. Representative], THE HILL, May 27, 2011, p. 16, GALE CENGAGE LEARNING, Expanded Academic ASAP. However, Pakistan's cooperation has been unsatisfactory when threats are directed toward the American people, but not the Pakistani government. Specifically, Pakistan has provided sanctuary to the Haqqani Network, a highly lethal terrorist organization that routinely attacks American forces in Afghanistan while seeking safe haven in the tribal region of North Waziristan. In September 2010, I met with American military leaders in Afghanistan who expressed frustration over the threat to our troops posed by the Haqqani Network and outrage over the uncooperative nature of Pakistani officials in addressing the problem.b) They provided sanctuary for Osama bin LadenEditorial, UWIRE, July 11, 2011, pNA, GALE CENGAGE LEARNING, Expanded Academic ASAP. According to MSNBC, analysts are hard pressed to believe that the al-Qaeda leader was hiding just a few hundred meters from Pakistan's version of the West Point military academy without its intelligence service knowing. It is striking that the U.S. chose not to notify Pakistan of the operation to capture bin Laden -- a decision that put American forces at risk of being engaged by supposedly allied forces. The clear implication is that American military and intelligence agencies believed that if they had notified Pakistan, bin Laden would have been tipped off and fled.