U.S.-Pakistani relations are “deformed,” and Washington should cease linking its Afghanistan war plans to expectations that Islamabad will target groups on its own soil, a former top American official said.
Dennis Blair, a former director of national intelligence (DNI), on Monday issued a bleak assessment of the icy partnership, which further eroded Saturday when a NATO air strike killed at least 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Folks, Pakistan has been the nexus of the region’s geopolitical problems for forty years. Pakis were the one’s driving nuclearization of the Middle East, officially recognizing the Taliban, supporting mass terrorism against India and other nations, working to give China a deep-water base for the Chinese Navy to outflank India. Etcetera. Etcetera.
And, they have a long history of letting Taliban shoot at us from inside Paki military compounds.