War on Terror
US lacks guts to tackle Pakistan
By Premen Addy
Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid, with his extensive knowledge of the Taliban and the politics of Central Asia, has just written an arresting book, Descent into Chaos. It describes in graphic detail the continuing purgatory of Afghanistan, trapped between American confusion and ineptitude and Washington's talismanic ties with Pakistan's military; the military's own cancerous hatred of and paranoia about 'Hindu' India and the unending US quest for Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani Army's delusions are swaddled in the seamless robe of the Great Game, whose players strive mightily for the aphrodisiac of power and influence. America, writes Rashid, had a minimalist agenda for Pakistani democracy, its investment was in the future of the country's favoured Generals.
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