The White House wants to funnel $400 million into training and procurement for Pakistan's armed forces to support current and future counterinsurgency operations in that country, according to the administration's latest supplemental appropriations request for fiscal year 2009. The funding would be placed into the "Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund" within the Treasury Department, according to an April 9 summary of the FY-09 supplemental request issued by Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag. Distribution of funds would be at...
