Breaking: Nobody Knows What To Do About Pakistan -- Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen tried everything he could to rehab America’s tenuous alliance with its frenemy, Pakistan. So when he testified last week that Pakistani intelligence sponsors the brutal Haqqani Network of Afghan insurgents, it represented two middle fingers raised at Islamabad. But the diplomatic furor that resulted has been all kabuki. Not a single aspect of the U.S.-Pakistani relationship will change.
You wouldn’t know it from listening to Pakistani politicians. They’ve lined up to denounce their old friend Mullen. Pakistani generals have done everything but scramble their jets to demonstrate their outrage.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
'Zero problems' in Ankara is havoc for the neighbourhood -- Michael Young, The National
ANALYSIS - How close is Iran to the bomb? Depends who you ask -- Reuters
How close is Iran to making the bomb? -- Rick Moran, American Thinker
Antidote To Afghanistan's Opium Addiction: Red Gold -- Economy watch
A Logistics Nightmare -- Erin Fitzgerald, Huffington Post
The Assassination Next Door -- Camelia Entekhabifard, New York Times
How to leave a strong Afghanistan -- Jeremi Suri, CNN
This War Can Still Be Won -- Fernando M. Lujan, New York Times
Return of the Islamists. A Questionable Form of Freedom for North Africa -- Clemens Höges and Thilo Thielke, Spiegel Online
Is the New Euro Backstop Fund Just the Beginning? -- Charles Hawley, Spiegel Online
Eurozone's dangerous lurch towards protectionism -- Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph
Britain's decline as a major military player is a truth we can't stomach -- Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian
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