Wednesday, April 1, 2009

How Pakistan Sees India


Pakistani Obsession with India -- Captain's Quarters

In The Afghanistan Strategy we discussed one problem with the administration plan, namely reliance on more money being a precursor to Pakistani operations against the Taliban. Some powerful people in Pakistan don’t really believe that the Taliban are a threat to Pakistan’s stability, and still believe in using them as a counterbalance to what they see as the real threat: India.

This obsession is so severe, so embedded, and so thoroughgoing that the U.S. policy makers do not understand it and have not yet adequately incorporated this characteristic of Pakistani culture and politics into the calculus for moving forward with stability in Asia.

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My Comment: When you have the media, educational system, the religious community and the political/business establishment brought up since day one that India is the enemy .... sigh .... old habits will be hard to die.

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