re: Why do we continue to do business with Pakistan?

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I really don't see any reason why we haven't cut them off like Cuba. I can't think of a worse ally America has had than these assholes, and they've really betrayed us. Anyone else think we should cut off relations with them?

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I don't pretend to have insight but my guess would be it gives us access to intelligence that would be more difficult to obtain if we did not have "ally" as an excuse for the exchange of information and overt territorial trespassing on their territory without risk of war. We'd probably like to have N. Korea as an "ally" also but that would be too over the top. It might be analogous to why we remain in the United Nations; keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.