The man in the street has not been the beneficiary of the U.S. aid.
"Husain Haqqani", alternately spelled "Hussain Haqqani", is a People of Pakistan/Pakistani political author and the former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States. He was appointed as the Pakistan ambassador in April 2008, after being exiled in 1999 following criticisms against the government of then-President Pervez Musharraf. He resigned on 22 November 2011 following allegations of his involvement in the Memogate (Pakistan)/Memogate controversy.
Prior to serving as Ambassador to the United States, Haqqani held several positions including as an adviser to three former Pakistani prime ministers and as envoy to Sri Lanka. In additions, Haqqani has also been a journalist, scholar and educator. He is currently a Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and co-editor of Hudson's signature journal Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. Haqqani is also the Director of the Center of International Relations and a Professor of the Practice of International Relations at Boston University.
More Husain Haqqani on Wikipedia.Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.
Willing to share power with the civilians in any meaningful way?
A strong man instils confidence in the short term, but in the long term politics is about how people relate to each other.
There will be a long-term questioning of the relationship between the citizenry and the Pakistan state.
This may take the wind out of their sails.
Most people have not started thinking about the political aspect of the aid, ... But when they do, the government is in trouble.
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