Pakistan is currently experiencing an enormous flood. Fifteen million people have been displaced. The question for you is how should the United States respond to this situation
I think that this is a good chance to get better relations with Pakistan BUT what I really want to know is if the money that is being given to the country going to go to the people who were effected or is it going to go to the country's corrupt bureaucracy. :)
i believe it is very critical for the us to act quickly and send support to Pakistan before its to late and our relationship keeps bending. if it keeps bending it will eventually snap.
True, but we do need to make sure we dont spend ridiculous amounts of money. We do have our own issues to take care of and we are in massive amoungs of debt
I think we should send them food but not money becouse who knows if it will be going to the right people and we the tax payers might be paying for some rich arab.
i also agree with karley i think we should help them and weve helped other people so we should help them out and it will help with our relationship with them for the future
i would rather spend a lot of money now helping pakistan and our relationship with pakistan rebuid than spend even more money rebuilding ourselves after they bomb us just like on call of duty's mission. halla
We need to focus on ourselves then help everyone else. Every other country should just chill and deal with out the US being there for a while so we can help with our own problems.
i think we need to go over there and help out as much as possible. if we dont im afraid when they get everything back to normal, we could be in danger due to terrorism.
We should help them in a way that they can't abuse it such as sending food, because who knows what they would use the money on. They could use it on what we send it over there for, or they could spend it on something ridiculous that they don't need. But like others have mentioned where were they when we needed help. What comes around goes around. We need to get back on our feet first!
Pakistan isnt the only country in the world having problems, people are dying in Africa every day and were not going drastically out of our way to help them, and they've never been an enemy to us. Why help the enemy when we could help people who actually want our help?
I agree pete. They didn't and I for one am tired of the US having to help when other countries get into trouble. What will happen when we are no longer a world power because we blew all our money and recourses on helping the other countries who beg and cry for us to help then never get back on their feet and are living off us like a leech.
your right karley if we would help pakistan then every country who has a little probelm with expect us to help them as well. we cant waste all of our money of other countries when we need our money ourselves
Lets get this across right now. We need to help Pakistan to rebuild our realtionship. If it gets much worse then their nukes will be aimed at us and that would completely collaps our economy and infrastructure if we were hit by a nuke. The only problem is we need to use money on ourselves to rebuild our own economy. Karley also had a good point that too many countries rely on us to fix the smallest of problems. So where do we go from here?
I agree with Natalie! We cant waste our money on other countries when we need it ourselves....especially when were not 100% sure the money were giving them is gonna go to the people effected...
I agree with nat if we arent going to get anything in return why should we even help them, but then again we want to build our relationship so we should help them
Regarding the United States and Pakistan it is not fair consider them equally able to assist one another. I for example would not expect my Children to do as much for me as I would do them. We as a super power are in a much better position to help them and impact the world than Pakistan is.
i agree with natalie we help every body else but we never get anything back so we should just make our economy stronger before we help anybody else. marco
I like the posts that suggest we need to be careful of spending to much money and I agree completely. But If it is between buying bread and water today to affect the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people and paying for the manufacture of bombs to fight a war that could last for years later. I think I will go with the bread and maybe even throw in some medicine and construction products.
i think thah he does know how to run the country, he just had to take over during harsh times and i think that he is doing just fine. we did vote for him you know
Maybe the other countrys that we are in debt to like CHINA should pitch in and help the other nations becouse more than likely they will become the next world power.
I think a better approach to the problem dealing with whether the country will spend it on the people or on their corrupt bureaucracy would be to not give them the actual money give them items they need like food and water...maybe then the people will like us better and have a better relationship :)
why would we risk our own people's lives attempting to help people who are going to harm those trying to help? if they cant appreciate what they get then why even help
kenny, we already said, its not money we want in return. we just want to help to improve our realationship because Pakistan doesnt like us and they have nukes
I think we need to remember we are the good guys we don't nuke other countries because we don't like them. We are heroes not villains that is why we need to do something positive when tragedy fits.
We shouldnt help them out with our money because we are like 13 trillion dollars in debt. Its like me buying a brand new boat while im paying for 3 ferrari's. ARFF ARFF!!
I think this is a very critic moment in US Pakistan relations. If we don't take wise actions it could greatly impact our efforts to combat terrorism.
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ReplyDeleteWe've always helped the world in need before. I don't know why we wouldnt now.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a good chance to get better relations with Pakistan BUT what I really want to know is if the money that is being given to the country going to go to the people who were effected or is it going to go to the country's corrupt bureaucracy. :)
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ReplyDeletei believe it is very critical for the us to act quickly and send support to Pakistan before its to late and our relationship keeps bending. if it keeps bending it will eventually snap.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough, where was Pakistan during Katrina? & dont we have our own starving children to take care of?
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ReplyDeletemaybe karley, but that would be like telling iraq that they need to help us in wars now. . . pointless
ReplyDeleteWe should help them out because it would create a better relationship between us and we would want them to help us.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Karley I think it should be a you scratch my back we'll scratch yours.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but we do need to make sure we dont spend ridiculous amounts of money. We do have our own issues to take care of and we are in massive amoungs of debt
ReplyDeletei dont think we should send them money because weve been spending money on other countries and they are just using us. they should fend for themselves
ReplyDeleteI agree with that lantern dude
ReplyDeleteI think we should send them food but not money becouse who knows if it will be going to the right people and we the tax payers might be paying for some rich arab.
ReplyDeletei also agree with karley i think we should help them and weve helped other people so we should help them out and it will help with our relationship with them for the future
ReplyDeletei would rather spend a lot of money now helping pakistan and our relationship with pakistan rebuid than spend even more money rebuilding ourselves after they bomb us just like on call of duty's mission. halla
ReplyDeleteI think we need to act quickly and help Pakistan with flood relief.I believe that it will help our countries realationship.
ReplyDeleteWe need to focus on ourselves then help everyone else. Every other country should just chill and deal with out the US being there for a while so we can help with our own problems.
ReplyDeleteKarley i agree with you but if we help out Pakistan are relationship with them be better and stronger then it is today.
ReplyDeleteMatt is awsome
ReplyDeletei agree with Brooke... we need to improve our relations with Pakistan by sending them aid but we need to make sure its going to the right people
ReplyDeletei like the call of duty reference brady
ReplyDeleteagreed!
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Karley's comment above, we should be helping, we've always helped in the past.
ReplyDeleteBrady. This is real life. Real people die. Its not a video game.
ReplyDeleteya brady
ReplyDeletewe dont need to think about helping them when we need to fix our country first
ReplyDeletei think we need to go over there and help out as much as possible. if we dont im afraid when they get everything back to normal, we could be in danger due to terrorism.
ReplyDeleteWell i think we should help but we are also in loads of debt so what now?
ReplyDeletewhat matt said
ReplyDeletedid pakistan help iowa when they had a flood? i dont think so
ReplyDeleteI think we should help, so we can be protected from terrorism.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brooke, also. We need to get our relations with Pakistan.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Karley, we have helped the world in the past, so why not help out Pakistan now.
ReplyDeleteWe should help them in a way that they can't abuse it such as sending food, because who knows what they would use the money on. They could use it on what we send it over there for, or they could spend it on something ridiculous that they don't need. But like others have mentioned where were they when we needed help. What comes around goes around. We need to get back on our feet first!
ReplyDeletei agree with Daniel on the part that we should send them food so they don't use our money in a ridiculous way.
ReplyDeleteand i also agree with Ashley. If we don't help it could come back to bite us in the butt.
ReplyDeleteI think we need to help on as much as we can because if we were in Pakistans situation we would expect them to help us..
ReplyDeletekarley . . . uncalled for
ReplyDeleteYes i think we need to take advantage of this and help them or it may come back at us...
ReplyDeleteyeah but what about when iowa flooded did Pakistan help us?
ReplyDeleteI think that we sould help them to better our relationshp but not help them to much because they did not help us
ReplyDeleteI just dont feel that it is right that were helping pakistan just because of the nuclear power. It shouldnt be just to use them
ReplyDeleteNo, but that is on a state level not a National level
ReplyDeleteamen pete amen!
ReplyDeletePakistan isnt the only country in the world having problems, people are dying in Africa every day and were not going drastically out of our way to help them, and they've never been an enemy to us. Why help the enemy when we could help people who actually want our help?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Whitney however when we were in a similiar situation they did not come help us
ReplyDeletei agree with dan 100%
ReplyDeleteGood point Karley...
ReplyDeletewe arnt helping Africa because they dont have what we want. We are a coutry that uses others
ReplyDeletebecause we keep our friends close but our enemies closer
ReplyDeleteI agree with Whit and Nat, we need to help them out, but not a whole lot because when have they ever helped us out???
ReplyDeletenatalie, how much could they really help though?
ReplyDeleteI agree pete. They didn't and I for one am tired of the US having to help when other countries get into trouble. What will happen when we are no longer a world power because we blew all our money and recourses on helping the other countries who beg and cry for us to help then never get back on their feet and are living off us like a leech.
ReplyDeleteyour right karley if we would help pakistan then every country who has a little probelm with expect us to help them as well. we cant waste all of our money of other countries when we need our money ourselves
ReplyDeleteI agre with nathan
ReplyDeletei agree with karley
ReplyDeletei agree with natalie... no1 ever helps us
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with GREEN LANTERN though
ReplyDeleteI think we should help them basically to keep good relations but if this happened to us i honestly would not expect pakistan to help us
ReplyDeleteme too
ReplyDeleteNatalie I agreed with you.. I never looked at it from the view.. you would think if we were helping them they would help us..
ReplyDeleteI agree with jordan_623
ReplyDeletenot very much brady but still why should we be expected to come to their rescue right away then?
ReplyDeletewhy help others when we need help. i think once we get back on top then we can worry about the other countries
ReplyDeleteagreed 100% Ethan. we're giving and not getting anything back!
ReplyDeleteethan i agree with you other countries just use us and we never get anything back from them
ReplyDeleteI agree with ethan but there living off us like jordan L neighbors live off are government
ReplyDeleteHow cn the US help
ReplyDeleteWhy wouldn't you expect Pakistan to come help us when we go and help them JB?
ReplyDeleteAtta boy matt!
ReplyDeleteEven if they haven't helped us out in the past, we should at least step up and help a little.
ReplyDeleteIt is pakistan erica what have they ever done for anyone and how much could they really help
ReplyDeleteDaniel we are getting back. Its two words! its called "the shaft"
ReplyDeletei agree with matt... we should worry about ourselves first
ReplyDeleteAlright that is true but still
ReplyDeleteemily that is so true, then if we show we can help maybe they will help us in the future
ReplyDeleteI think we need to not only focus on Pakistan but other countries that could use our help
ReplyDeleteexactly jb so why should we help them at all then?
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ReplyDeletehonestly even if you think they haven't help they have in some way
ReplyDeleteThey are not gonna help us in the future they will just befriend us so we dont have to worry about eachother
ReplyDeleteLets get this across right now. We need to help Pakistan to rebuild our realtionship. If it gets much worse then their nukes will be aimed at us and that would completely collaps our economy and infrastructure if we were hit by a nuke. The only problem is we need to use money on ourselves to rebuild our own economy. Karley also had a good point that too many countries rely on us to fix the smallest of problems. So where do we go from here?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Natalie! We cant waste our money on other countries when we need it ourselves....especially when were not 100% sure the money were giving them is gonna go to the people effected...
ReplyDeleteI agree with nat if we arent going to get anything in return why should we even help them, but then again we want to build our relationship so we should help them
ReplyDeleteExactly!
ReplyDeleteWhat can all of us do to help out in your time of need?
ReplyDeleteAnd then stab us in the back polo.
ReplyDeletebrady u r an inspiration to us all
ReplyDeleteRegarding the United States and Pakistan it is not fair consider them equally able to assist one another. I for example would not expect my Children to do as much for me as I would do them. We as a super power are in a much better position to help them and impact the world than Pakistan is.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brady..
ReplyDeletewhy give like all that we have to countries in need? so we can cry and plea for help from them back!
ReplyDeleteGood luck to them setting off those nukes under water:)
ReplyDeletei agree with Mr. Carlson...
ReplyDeleteMr. Carlson that is a very good point, but u would think they would have a better realtionship with us in return for what we do for them
ReplyDeletei agree with natalie we help every body else but we never get anything back so we should just make our economy stronger before we help anybody else. marco
ReplyDeleteyeah nukes and water are not going to work very well
ReplyDeleteBrady now is time to...... SHHHHH!!!!!
ReplyDeletei think no matter what we do we will screw ourselves over because our president dont know how to run the country. its only going to get worse
ReplyDeleteDaniel it what counties do and we dont cry about it we ask for help
ReplyDeleteI like the posts that suggest we need to be careful of spending to much money and I agree completely. But If it is between buying bread and water today to affect the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people and paying for the manufacture of bombs to fight a war that could last for years later. I think I will go with the bread and maybe even throw in some medicine and construction products.
ReplyDeletegood point brady by us helping pakistan then shouldnt we have a better relationship with them?
ReplyDeleteMatthew i believe you meant "our president DOESN'T know how to run the country"
ReplyDeletei think thah he does know how to run the country, he just had to take over during harsh times and i think that he is doing just fine. we did vote for him you know
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GjAc_XtioU
ReplyDeleteWe are not 18 so we did not vote for him!!
ReplyDeletei agree with mr. carlson 100%
ReplyDeleteMaybe the other countrys that we are in debt to like CHINA should pitch in and help the other nations becouse more than likely they will become the next world power.
ReplyDeletekarley ive had enough of your teachings this is government not english
ReplyDeleteaaron it would work we could kill some fish as delta would put it
ReplyDeleteGood point Ryan.
ReplyDeleteeveryone should check out this recent article titled "Pakistan Taliban planning aid attack" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11092868
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ReplyDeletei agree with jordan
ReplyDeletematthew i agree with you 100%
ReplyDeletematthew is true
ReplyDeleteno matter who is the president there are always people unhappy on the way they run things so quit complaining
ReplyDeletei too agree with jordan...well it appears ive just spontaniousy combusted
ReplyDeletei agree with sending supplies but nothing that if it were abused that it wouldnt effect us much
ReplyDeleteVery true Natalie, you cant make everyone happy
ReplyDeleteI think a better approach to the problem dealing with whether the country will spend it on the people or on their corrupt bureaucracy would be to not give them the actual money give them items they need like food and water...maybe then the people will like us better and have a better relationship :)
ReplyDeleteso karley says that we shouldnt help because the taliban wants to harm those who help
ReplyDeleteyes
ReplyDeleteI have an idea just nuke the entire middle east and then we can't argue.
ReplyDeletethen i dont want us to help if their going to harm us!
ReplyDeletewell said jordan_2011
ReplyDeleteso we shouldn't help them if they are going to harm people who help them
ReplyDeletethis would be so much easier if every one thought like me
ReplyDeletewhy would we risk our own people's lives attempting to help people who are going to harm those trying to help? if they cant appreciate what they get then why even help
ReplyDeletei agree with you green lantern and we should also nuke france
ReplyDeleteif we dont help them i think that their government, which is much more powerful than the taliban, would be even more angered
ReplyDeletethats not the best idea Ethan
ReplyDeleteFrance has nothing to do with this??
ReplyDeletethat's why we just dont help
ReplyDeleteGreen lantern, GREAT IDEA! we could go for world domination after that
ReplyDeleteYes I agree with Amanda, that's not the best idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to agree more and more with not helping them at all
ReplyDeleteit is the simplest idea there is to solving the problem
ReplyDeleteif we need help from others would they rally help us
ReplyDeletei agree with jordan
ReplyDeleteIt would solve so many problems that we are arguing about and it would solve the taliban problem
ReplyDeleteseriously natalie that would be rude and we dont want pakistan to dislike us, they could posibly become like north korea
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ReplyDeleterotz they wouldnt come help us even if we asked them to
ReplyDeletekenny, we already said, its not money we want in return. we just want to help to improve our realationship because Pakistan doesnt like us and they have nukes
ReplyDeletecorol cement sucks
ReplyDeleteAgreeing with Jordan, we don't need anymore people hating the US more then they need too.
ReplyDeletei think it is a trap. they know we will help and once we get there we will be killed
ReplyDeletePAKISTAN ALREADY HATES US! in the articles we read it was like 68% of people in Pakistan view us as an enemy.
ReplyDeletewe need to have a convoy
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point Matthew...
ReplyDeleteno matter what we do people are still going to hate us cause were a world power
ReplyDeletewe need to have other country confederacy
ReplyDeleteWe got an asian convoy rocking through the night
ReplyDeletePlayas need to stop all dat hatinnnn. they be sippin on that hatorade alla time. daaaaummm
ReplyDeleteit is easy to say we will help but no one will
ReplyDeleteyes
ReplyDeleteI think we need to remember we are the good guys we don't nuke other countries because we don't like them. We are heroes not villains that is why we need to do something positive when tragedy fits.
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ReplyDeletewhoooooo
ReplyDeletebrady should just shut up some times
ReplyDeleteso class. what we talkin bout hur???
ReplyDeleteI agree with karley. DOnt hate the player, hate the game
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ReplyDeleteI believe that we need to help them. We expect others to help us when we are in need, and they are obviously in desperate need for help.
ReplyDeleteagree with Lucas "GINGER" Lohmann, whoooooo 3
ReplyDeleteWe should help them out (that will help with our relationship with them too) but we shouldn't spend loads of money on them
ReplyDeletesample
ReplyDeletewheres are flood aid?
ReplyDeleteand we dont want any bad organizations to move in and take control of their government... like al-queda for example
ReplyDeleteI think we should help them out because if it happened to us we would expect the same in return..
ReplyDeletewere not important
ReplyDeletewhat matt says
ReplyDeletetrue true codman
ReplyDeletecome on guys lets all be friends
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Kinna :)
ReplyDeleteon twinnie1_soph1115 comment the only problem is a good part the world hates us
ReplyDeleteHIT EM WIT A LIL GHETTO GOSPEL!
ReplyDeletei agree with what Kinna said too
ReplyDeleteommmmmm no josh_ohrt_69
ReplyDeleteTwinnie 2 has a very good point
ReplyDeleteTrue Andrew
ReplyDeletejoshua. why would we want to do that??
ReplyDeletejosh is sounding like a hippie
ReplyDeleteWe shouldnt help them out with our money because we are like 13 trillion dollars in debt. Its like me buying a brand new boat while im paying for 3 ferrari's.
ReplyDeleteARFF ARFF!!
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ReplyDeletehaha hippie
ReplyDeletei agree with kinna!! It would help our relation with them. But i doubt they would return the favor if that happened to us.
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