{"id":7344,"date":"2008-09-12T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.169.38.31\/?p=7344"},"modified":"2008-09-12T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T18:28:00","slug":"things-going-south-between-us-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormogons.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/things-going-south-between-us-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Things going south between us and Pakistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commentarymagazine.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greenwald\/30012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This may be an overdue reckoning<\/a>, or it may just be the inevitable result of Musharraf&#8217;s downfall. The more public opinion\u2014not to mention the military and ISI\u2014comes into play in Pakistan, the less well we&#8217;re going to do in in the short term. (Something I should have mentioned about Egypt when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/2008\/08\/so-not-only-is-our-public-diplomacy.html\">writing about Kifaya<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And given that Waziristan and the tribal areas are basically al-Q\u00e2\u2019ida and the Taliban&#8217;s headquarters and staging area, if Islamabad won&#8217;t deal with them, it was probably a matter of time before we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be an overdue reckoning, or it may just be the inevitable result of Musharraf&#8217;s downfall. 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