I presume that you are referring to the Karachi-NWF transport route. The one we are spending big bucks trying not to use by developing a Baltic-to-Central Asia and anyway is a mostly commercial relationship enabled by the Pakistani government. It is NOT direct support of a military that is more interested in threatening a tacit ally-India-than it is in handling our mutual security interests in the NWFP. While I agree that Pakistan is a necessary partner in the GWOT, we would be naive fools to not acknowledge that the problem persists largely by their direct and indirect aiding and abetting.
I think we’re about 8 years overdue to get out of Afghanistan, but I can agree with much of that.
We should have left immediately after the punitive expedition phase, and before the meals on wheels phase. Said “Do it again and we’ll screw you up worse, we’re outta here” and decamped.
also people forget that Psakistan is a ‘they’ not an ‘it’.
some are with us, some against us, and some are just riding the tiger hoping to survive.