Yglesias on the Topsy-turvy US-Af-Pak Meeting

Posted by Malou Innocent

Matt Yglesias nails it:

I don’t know exactly what the issue is, but it doesn’t make sense for the American government to be acting as if this is a bigger deal for us than it is for the Pakistanis.

Washington’s excessive fear of the Taliban threat may be warranted, but the disproportionate response is literally “perverse.”

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