Saturday, December 26, 2015

What is this article about?Nuclear Fuel Memos Expose Wary Dance With Pakistan, it is on New York Times.

This is an article based on some of the diplomatic
documents that have been leaked by Wikileaks recently.  The article talks about
documents having to do with the US relationship with Pakistan.  The basic idea here is
that the US needs Pakistan but, at the same time, needs to try to push Pakistan to do
various things.  The leaks show how hard it is to try to push a country to do something
when you kind of need their friendship.


Here is a quote
that pretty much summarizes the main idea of the
article:


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It may be the most unnerving
evidence of the complex relationship — sometimes cooperative, often confrontational,
always wary — between America and Pakistan ... underneath public reassurances lie deep
clashes over strategic goals on issues like Pakistan’s support for the Afghan title="More articles about the Taliban."
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archenemy.



The US needs
Pakistan's help if we are going to be able to have any chance of "fixing" the problems
in Afghanistan.  At the same time, however, we are unhappy with them about things like
nuclear weapons and the issues mentioned above.  Finally, they tend to get mad at us
over issues like our support for India and our military strikes in their
territory.


So the basic idea is that it is hard to manage
this relationship -- it's hard to try to make them be our friends while (at the same
time) we push them to do things they don't want to do.

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