Magnificent Delusions
Magnificent Delusions The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. America--to Pakistani eyes--has been a guarantee of security, a coldly…
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Magnificent Delusions
The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. America--to Pakistani eyes--has been a guarantee of security, a coldly distant scold, an enthusiastic military enabler, and is now a threat to national security and a source of humiliation.The countries are not merely at odds. Pakistan--to American eyes--has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror.
The conventional narrative about the war in Afghanistan, for instance, has revolved around the Soviet invasion in 1979. Each believes it can play the other--with sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic, results. But President Jimmy Carter signed the first authorization to help the Pakistani-backed mujahedeen covertly on July 3--almost six months before the Soviets invaded.
Americans were told, and like to believe,
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