Cross posted from The Democratic Daily:
Senate Dems are putting pressure on Pakistan and threatening to "withhold delivery of jet fighter planes to Pakistan if it does not intensify its campaign against terrorists."
At stake is the long-delayed sale of 18 new jet fighters, an opportunity to buy 18 more and refurbishing 34 used aircraft already in Pakistan's air force arsenal.
Although the Bush administration has already "opposed an even tougher move in the House," yesterday, Senators John Kerry, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden introduced a resolution "expressing that U.S. military assistance to Pakistan should correlate to that country’s success in countering al Qaeda and the Taliban."
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