The Pakistani establishment, as we saw in 1998 with the nuclear test, does not view assistance -- even sizable assistance to their own entities -- as a trade-off for national security vis-a-vis India.
While holograms can usually be viewed without assistance, the polarized photos and videos on display all required the same sort of grey-lensed glasses they hand out at movie theaters.
Through a bipartisan consensus, Republican and Democratic leadership have consistently viewed development assistance as a core tool of U.S. foreign policy to address American interests while promoting our democratic ideals and role as a compassionate nation.
In the new round of hearings, Sessions may face some lingering questions: Why did his prosecutors view voter assistance as a form of voter fraud?
Whether Rugasira is right in the part of his thinking that condemns aid, or whether Sachs is correct in viewing tremendous assistance as crucial, the continent may be inching upward.
There is no chance that Pakistan will view enhanced assistance levels in any field as sufficient compensation for abandoning support to these groups, which it sees as an important part of its national security apparatus against India.
To the limited extent that it gets involved in foreign aid programs, it views that assistance as a means to an end: improving America's image abroad, strengthening its position in diplomatic negotiations or building relationships with strategic partners.
Although Pakistan had received more than $16bn£10bnbn) in American aid since 2001, "there is no chance that Pakistan will view enhanced assistance … as sufficient compensation for abandoning support to these groups", Anne Patterson wrote in a secret review of Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy in September 2009.
Thus in neorealist views, foreign assistance should also serve to the advancement of states' economic power.
How one views Fatal Assistance, depends upon prior knowledge the viewer brings to the film.
In UNICEF's view, humanitarian assistance must address both Haiti's urgent needs, and lay the foundation for longer-term reconstruction and development.
