Remember that one of the main demands of the Pakistani militants who took credit for the execution of Israeli-American journalist, Daniel Pearl, was the sale of the promised F-16’s to Pakistan. Is this a move by the US to coax the cooperation of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence), Pakistan’s equivalent of the FBI, into diminishing support for Islamic militants who have been successfully disrupting the fledgling, pro-US puppet government of Afghanistan?
This French intellectual/celebrity guy wrote a book about how the Pakistani government was really behind the Pearl murder. I read a weird interview with him at: http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,977498,00.html
Oh, and it’s “gesture”.