democracyarsenal.org - 4/9/2009
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Disagreeing with Steve Walt is generally not advisable, because A) he's generally right in the first place, and B) he can turn your best arguments into confetti, but I am going to go ahead and take issue with his post questioning the seriousness of the terrorist threat in the ...
smh.com.au - 4/12/2009
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smh.com.au —
Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse
within months PAKISTAN could collapse within months, one of...
the more influential counter-insurgency voices in Washington says. The warning comes as the US scrambles to redeploy its military forces and ...
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Pakistan in danger of collapse
thehill.com - 4/8/2009
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thehill.com —
U.S. envoys met with Pakistani leaders on Tuesday
to ensure that the $7.5 billion that President Obama...
plans to send their way over the next five years will be used to achieve common goals in the fight against extremism. But according to a Pakistani ...
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Report: Pakistan rejects U.S. plan, wants drones
timesonline.co.uk - 4/11/2009
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timesonline.co.uk —
Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister, has rejected claims
that Britain was failing to co-operate with Pakistani authorities...
on checking applicants for student visas in Britain. He was reacting to an assertion by the Pakistani High Commissioner in ...
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You stopped us from vetting people, says Pakistan envoy
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Escalation Advocates Can't Agree On Real Af/Pak Mission
Newshoggers.com —
... Walt's argument leads three major progressive backers of Obama's strategy to give fairly contradictory responses. Patrick Barry at Democracy Arsenal says that the safe havens in Pakistan really do matter. ...
We're From the US Government, and We're Here to Help
Obsidian Wings —
... by Eric Martin
Patrick Barry takes issue with a recent post by Stephen Walt in which Walt attempted to forward a few ideas that run counter to conventional wisdom Namely, Walt asserts: (1) that we are overreacting to the threat posed by terrorism in certain of our foreign policy choices; (2) that safe havens in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not necessary for terrorists to operate; and (3) thus, that "a costly, long-term [military] engagement in Afghanistan and Pakistan" does not serve our long term interests (when weighed against costs). Barry ...
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