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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
If we put the screws on M. I am guessing that would make India happy.
I think it's ironic that we ended up on the side of a totalitarian regime in an Islamic country, rather than the side of a democratic state that is primarily non-Muslim with close economic ties and a lot more people.
It would be nice if one day we could be honest and really admit that Pakistan as presently constituted is not on our side. But instead we pretend that they are and give them billions.
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Because the US isn't naive enough to think that the choice is that black and white. Foreign policy DEMANDS that you have to make deals with the devil. You have to choose as best you can the lesser of many evils. Because you have to perform risk analyses and decide as best you can the "what ifs" of many different possible choices and come to terms with how you fight against the worst of the "what ifs".
It's obviously easy for you since you live in a vacuum.