Recipe for chaos
By Dave
June 13th, 2008 | Leave a comment
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, with an up-close view of the situation there, has written new book that doesn’t disguise his point of view: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin says it should be required reading for both John McCain and Barack Obama, the two major presidential candidates.
In her column, citing Rashid’s book, Rubin predicts that the next major foreign policy problem will stem from a lawless region in Pakistan known (at least by a few) as FATA: Federally Administered Tribal Areas of northern Pakistan. Calling it federally administered is a bit of an oxymoron: It’s largely a lawless expanse that is safe haven to al-Qaida, the Taliban and other undesirables (to the United States, anyway). Neither Pakistan nor the United States is effectively combating the insurgency there.
Rashid told the columnist he thinks President Bush should first stop publicly backing Pakistan’s unpopular leader, Pervez Musharraf. Both figures are widely disliked in Pakistan and parts nearby.
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June 14th, 2008 at 4:18 am
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