How to handle Pakistan? 5 pointers

BY THOMAS E. RICKS

OCTOBER 5, 2016 

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/05/how-to-handle-pakistan-5-pointers/

One of youse recommended Peter Tomsen’s The Wars of Afghanistan,so I have been reading it. (No one told me it was the size of The Baseball Encyclopedia.)

I’m impressed at how much Tomsen lays at the feet of the government/military of Pakistan. Fittingly, he ends with a series of recommendations of how to be tougher with Pakistan. Among them:

– “Seek results, not assurances.”

– “Condition U.S. assistance.”

– “Place or threaten to place Pakistan on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.”

– “Pry Pakistan out of the Intra-Afghan peace dialogue.”

– “Maintain a bipartisan consensus on Pakistani policy.”