Pakistan’s Gift to America: Turbulence Unlimited
October 3rd, 2008
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Posted in: Pakistan
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Central Asia, General Musharraf, General Petraeus, India, Iraq, Islamists, Islamization, John McCain, Lal Masjid, Militant Jihad, Pakistan, President Ali Zardari, Soviet Union, Soviets, Taliban, U.S.
The saga of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship may best be described by the phrase “use and abandon.” That happened during the years following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when Pakistan eagerly became America’s ally. But when the Soviets were defeated and ousted from Afghanistan, the U.S. went home. Pakistan was left alone to deal with [...]