We've now decided to ship "upgrade kits" to the Pakistan military that will help turn large bombs into laser-guided, smart bombs. We have also given control over a number of drones and used F-16s. All this because of the largely ceremonial flurry of activity by Pakistan to work with us in capturing Taliban leaders. This foreign policy is no better than the one that the Administration disavowed when it came in. India, to its credit, is keeping relatively quiet.
However, this does nothing in the long term to stabilize the realtionship between India and Pakistan in the tinderbox that is Kashmir. The Pakistan government and the ISI know how to perform in order to get U.S. aid, and while we probably had to have some show of reciprocity for increased activity against Taliban strongholds, I wish that we had a vision of how to bring meaningful rapprochement between these long-feuding neighbors.
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