Salim Mansur ping.
“...Pakistan became a Muslim version of North Korea. From aiding and hiding al-Qaida’s leaders to arming, supporting and instructing Taliban fighters, Pakistan is in effect an objective enemy of the U.S. and the West.”
Pakistan has always been a wolf in sheeps clothing
The reality is the fact that they are also a nuclear power , and they have always envied the prosperity of thier neighbor ,India.
Pakistan has drawn even closer to the Red Chinese since the knowledge that the ISI used the Haqqudi as an an extension of Pakistan’s Intelligence unit.
This is a “no win” situation .
The underlying rationale for the U.S. remaining in Afghanistan has been to protect Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. Obviously this position has to be rethought—maybe from inside the Indian border.
That will be a fatal conceit if they push it. If they think they can stab at the West, protected by nuclear weapons, Saudi money, and a deep double game of onion-layered deceit and deception, they will end up as fried onion rings. Their fantasy will be their death sentence.
Nice summary.
The short version is, “how absurd was it to allow the creation, out of India, of a state whose premise was government by Islam?”