Allies?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiap ... tan.china/

Washington (CNN) -- The United States is concerned that Pakistan may have given China access to the helicopter that crashed in the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, a U.S. official said Monday.
"We have reason to suspect China was given access but we cannot confirm it definitively," said a U.S. official who is not authorized to discuss intelligence matters publicly. "We have strong suspicions."
The comment came after news reports suggested Pakistani authorities may have allowed Chinese engineers to see the stealth aircraft.
A senior Pakistani intelligence official denied that ever happened. "This story is unsubstantiated and false," said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

With friends like that...

Consider it from their side. If Brazil had commandos land in Kansas and take out a guy under our protection do you think Americans would be working on a little payback?

...but I wouldn't have a problem skipping a few months of aid payments to their military.

I wouldn't confuse "ally" with "friend".

We need to pull all our troops out and cease all aid to the region. They are a feudal tribal people that understand corruption, not freedom in any form.

If we think for one second that Pakistan is our ally then we are about as stupid as it gets.

chickaree wrote: If we think for one second that Pakistan is our ally then we are about as stupid as it gets.

All an "ally" is is someone you need to have certain agreements with for strategic reasons. It doesn't have much to do whether they are likeable, or have anything in common with you, or even if they are loathsome slimeballs.

They are neither friend nor ally, but backstabbingsh*theels.

I really doubt they could learn much they didn't already know. Radar absorbing materials (carbon composites) are not all that secret. Its the manufacturing process and the computer/finite element analysis that is needed. Just looking at a part is probably useless. Much more info has probably been lost due to hackers getting into Lockheed computers and other places.

not many sympathies for the Pakistan government, here.

Pakistan is extremely poor -- and corruption is relatively commonplace.

Not sure why anyone would trust them more than a millimeter away from proper oversight.