We’ve been at work for the last five years trying to build an alliance with India. I hope we don’t now mess this up.
Because much of what we do requires cooperation from Pakistan, we always walk a bit of a tight-rope, and mostly India understands that. But taking sides with Pakistan over Kashmir doesn’t strike me as a bright idea unless our intent is to drive India away. At the end of the day, we need both countries, but we need India about ten times, a hundred times more than we do Pakistan. We need to work with Pakistan but India is who we are fundamentally more in tune with. It will be a big mistake to forget that.
There is a reason you don’t let amateurs live in the White House. Or shouldn’t.
Petraeus would be wise to listen to Rashid...He knows more about the Taliban than anyone. He has contacts that no American could ever get and his knowledge is vast. That said, in the ways of Islam, one always must be a skeptic, for lying and deceit are time honored traditions.