Wednesday - April 06, 2011

the uk cause of many of world’s problems. mickey mouse pm says so.

Always be sure and knock your own country when traveling to another. Makes the natives feel nice. Makes you look stupid of course. But the natives feel nice.

Saw a headline this morning and wasn’t surprised at all. The Prime Minister of the country apologizing again.  In fact, the conservative in name PM said that the UK caused many of the world’s problems. Well, maybe in a manner of speaking in a few cases that could be true enough. It’s true of many countries as well.
But I always have honestly believed that this country left many people better off then they were before the arrival of the Brits. No need to go into a litany of deeds. It would be foolish to assume that there were never any self serving greedy people. Which isn’t the point anyway.
I had hoped that the age of apologies was over by now. Anyway, this PM doesn’t speak for all the people and that is for certain.
Brits have nothing to say sorry for. As far as I am concerned, they do not even owe an apology for slavery, which Tony Blair gave as PM.
In a column today in the Telegraph, Peter Oborne says, “History is not some retrospective court case in which blame is apportioned.”

So then, apologies aside which alone are bad enough. We now also have this.

The £650m apology: Forget our ailing education system, that’s what Britain’s giving to Pakistani schools to make amends for the past

By TIM SHIPMAN
Last updated at 9:05 AM on 6th April 2011

David Cameron vowed to hand hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money plus vital military secrets to Pakistan yesterday to make amends for offending the Muslim nation last year.

The Prime Minister pledged to invest £650million in Pakistani schools at a time when the education budget at home is being cut.

The gesture came after Mr Cameron sparked a diplomatic rift last year when he accused the country of ‘looking both ways’ on terrorism.

Britain is also to give highly sensitive military technology to combat roadside bombs to the Pakistani security services, which are widely blamed for funding and arming the Taliban.

In a huge gamble with the lives of British troops in Afghanistan, Mr Cameron agreed to spend millions more on a centre of excellence for the country’s soldiers and spies near Peshawar, a hotbed of militancy.

In a huge gamble with the lives of British troops in Afghanistan, Mr Cameron agreed to spend millions more on a centre of excellence for the country’s soldiers and spies near Peshawar, a hotbed of militancy.

The technology deal sparked fears that the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, would hand details to the Taliban, enabling them to build more effective improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The huge cash injection for schools by the Department for International Development will make Pakistan the UK’s biggest recipient of overseas aid.

It is designed to get four million children into the classroom – 17million currently get no schooling. Pakistan spends just 1.5 per cent of its national income on schools but is placing billion-pound orders for six Chinese submarines and 36 fighter aircraft.

The UK will have no control of the curriculum in schools receiving funding, meaning taxpayers could see their money pumped into madrassas peddling extremism.

Mr Cameron defended the payments, saying it was ‘in our interest’ to help Pakistan.

He said: ‘If Pakistan is a success we’ll have a good friend to trade and invest and deal with.

‘If we fail we’ll have all the problems of migration, of extremism, problems that we don’t want to see. So it’s in our interest that Pakistan succeeds.’

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he believed a ‘root cause’ of terrorism was illiteracy.

(illiteracy? sure. but how to account for many highly educated pond scum who have attended Brit universities, and gone on to terrorism from there)

But Tory MP Philip Davies said: ‘Particularly at the moment when we’ve got no money, there’s absolutely no justification for increasing the amounts that we give to other countries.

‘That is especially the case with countries that can afford to spend billions on defence. If they can afford submarines they can afford to educate their own people.

‘We need to concern ourselves with our own schools because countries around the world are overtaking us in educational attainment.’

read all the rest

That isn’t all either.  This country gives away millions upon millions upon millions every year. They even give money to countries like India, which has it’s own space program. 

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