Because America is in such kick-ass fiscal shape that we can afford to give an ungrateful Islamist-infested hellhole billions in taxpayer money.

(CNSNews.com) — The Obama administration is asking Congress to approve $1.9 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan in fiscal year 2012 and an additional $1.2 billion to boost its counterinsurgency capabilities along the border with Afghanistan.

The $1.9 billion is included in the State Department’s core budget request released Monday, while the latter figure comes from a separate “Overseas Contingency Operations” (OCO) category — the Obama administration’s preferred term for what its predecessor called the war on terrorism.

The 2012 OCO request seeks a total $8.7 billion to cover “extraordinary and temporary” costs of operations in the “frontline states” — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.