YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR HEAD PLUNGED PRETTY DEEP IN...THE ATLANTIC...:

India the Key to U.S.-Pakistan Relationship (Jim Hoagland, 7/20/08, Real Clear Politics)

Pakistan has created the world's toughest foreign policy challenge. Its military and civilian governments have for decades profited from stirring tribal warfare in Afghanistan, then been too frightened of or complicit with their own fundamentalists to push for significant social change at home.

But Qureshi was persuasive when he outlined his determination to improve relations with India. His recent trips there convince him that the two nations must put aside hostility and help make each other rich: "We must capitalize on this opportunity."

India's growing economic power will leave its neighbor in the dust unless Pakistan becomes part of that prosperity. Pakistan's future will be determined by its relations with India, not by increased U.S. aid or maintaining its support for tribal war in Afghanistan.

...not to realize by now that a nation's relationship with India and America is inextricably intertwined. If Pakistan can't get along with India it has us both to reckon with, which is why we're down with India retaining nukes.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 20, 2008 9:39 AM