Spencer Ackerman, reading a new report on the killing of 28 Pakistani troops by U.S. forces, blames "the Pakistani military’s persistent habit of coordinating with insurgents more closely than with U.S. forces." C. Christine Fair thinks we should apologize anyway:
[N]either the United States nor Pakistan will benefit from a continued and escalating standoff. America needs Pakistan to conclude its Afghanistan misadventure. This requires Pakistan both to stop encouraging its militant proxies' violent endeavors and to productively assert its influence to achieve a negotiated settlement that is palatable to most in the country. Washington also wants to keep an eye on Islamabad's quickly expanding nuclear arsenal and terrorist assets such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba — the group that carried out the Mumbai attacks — and other international menaces. Finally, the United States wants Pakistan somehow to be at peace with itself and its neighbors.
The Economist's Clausewitz believes that another one of these incidents is inevitable without a significant shift in the US-Pakistan relationship. Asra Q. Nomani takes a hard look at what a controversy over a naked photograph reveals about the fissures in Pakistani politics.
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