The United States had trapped itself in its alliance with Pakistan. It could not mount more pressure on the nuclear-armed Pakistan and was unable to find a strategy to persuade Pakistan's generals to change their strategic calculus toward India.
In this excerpt from his book, author and journalist Steve Coll writes about how Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has damaged Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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The silver lining is that Trump’s expanded troop presence is meant to help fill lingering gaps in Afghan security capacities—including intelligence collection.
Not only do our popular TV offerings show the Pathan husband as the wife-beating patriarch, but even commissioned projects by the authorities to promote patriotism stigmatise the Pathans by portraying them as terrorists.
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Because 0bama DIDN’T WANT to “escape the trap” — as evidenced by his engineering of Muslim Brotherhood misgovernment on Egypt (which Egypt’s military under Sisi set right) and his support for the coup against legitimate Ivoirian president Laurent Gbagbo byf ILLEGITIMATE (as per Ivoirian constitution, due to his parents being from Burkina Faso) Al Hassan Ouattara — but to actually usher-in a caliphate, of which he hoped to be caliph!
Because 0bama DIDN’T WANT to “escape the trap” — as evidenced by his engineering of Muslim Brotherhood misgovernment on Egypt (which Egypt’s military under Sisi set right) and his support for the coup against legitimate Ivoirian president Laurent Gbagbo byf ILLEGITIMATE (as per Ivoirian constitution, due to his parents being from Burkina Faso) Al Hassan Ouattara — but to actually usher-in a caliphate, of which he hoped to be caliph!