1.22.2009

Pakistan in Peril

From Midwest Bureau Cub Reporter Paul Knue:


Even more evidence of the failures of the Bush presidency. How long will it take to undo the damage of the last eight years?



The relative calm in Iraq in recent months, combined with the drama of the US elections, has managed to distract attention from the catastrophe that is rapidly overwhelming Western interests in the part of the world that always should have been the focus of America's response to September 11: the al-Qaeda and Taliban heartlands on either side of the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.



The situation here could hardly be more grim...

[From Pakistan in Peril - The New York Review of Books]


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