"Congress is bound and determined to help routout taxpayers who abuse the system, " warns Vaughn Henry, a charitable-gift consultant in Springfield, Ill.
It mentioned France's current role in Mali, where 1, 700 troops are to join forces with neighboring African countries to routout an Islamist occupation of the country's north.
Pakistan's gambit has also drawn grumbling from American officials, who continue to press for a major military offensive to routout the Taliban in North Waziristan, which itself has a population of more than half a million.