Some excerpts from a Washington Post article today
.... The United States is fighting Pakistan-based extremists by proxy, through an army over which it has little control, in alliance with a government in which it has little confidence.
The tools most readily at hand are money, weapons, and a mentoring relationship with Pakistan's government and military that alternates between earnest advice and anxious criticism....
.... Although the missile attacks are privately approved by the Pakistani government, despite its public denunciations, they are highly unpopular among the public....
.... "You can't spend more in Iraq and Afghanistan," Hussain Haqqani said, "and then wonder why the effort in Pakistan is lagging behind."
(full article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/03/AR.html?wprss=rss_politics)
MH replied on Monday, May 4, 2009 11:29 PM
US seeks Pakistan nuclear pledge.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8032898.stm |
