As the old saying goes, even if you're an Independent or a Democrat you always keep Republicans as your friends because they have the biggest guns (ha-ha).  That was actually a joke told at a comedy club a few years ago. However, today when Congress debated HR 1886 [Military & Non-Military Aid to Pakistan] in the House, the confused illusion of how al al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents were getting their artillery in Pakistan & Afghanistan brought forth the axiom to review self-evident truth that requires no proof, notwithstanding, the drug trade supply & demand department.
 
To more clarify, the way our Government keeps us within the protection clause of the Constitution, when Republicans hold the majority, they weld a 3lb sledge hammer like they're the Armor-all man and send every brute force object into battle zones.  It's no big secret of what keeps The United State's mighty integrity in tact and the truth of the matter is that America should never forget that strategy when it's necessary. The ground is never forgiving no matter where anyone thinks their spirit or soul goes after death, and here in America the cold hard fact is that loss of life for family and friends more than not keeps us awake to that reality.  

Now that the Democrats hold the majority, there is a sufficient rise of support from non-Americans in adhering the words of President Obama and his ideology that everything truly begins in the home pursuant to his key strategy of combating extremism with economic and social development.  Besides the probability that radicals are retaliating from years gone past in dealings with fearless leaders, the only real thing most people want is the best that life has to offer for their own family and friends.  So at least giving our President the benefit of the doubt is the exact opposite predisposition that attracts like when Americans followed our last President into battle with almost no questions asked.

As to simply asking Pakistan to follow through with the commitments they've already made?  Sending that statement as a message that no longer will a "blank check" be written isn't quite on the mark for the previous 12 billion allocated.  The real problem is that monies are already gone and many Pakistan citizens are completely dis-placed whereas their ability to make good on previous obligated pledges or promises are just not feasibly sustainable to gain a conscience that America is fully behind their recent pledges to fight back themselves.  They need momentum; not roadblocks, and their system over there also needs the same "minor" oversight that our systems do.  Trying as moments might be, we are still on the same path that the previous President set the stage for except the "spread of democracy" concept is now seeing an ideology through exhaustion that is starting to change for themselves, by themselves, via of themselves.