Pakistan's involvement with the Taliban, is as you know also connected with their long-term situation with India .. there was a post which dealt with that directly .. this isn't the one i'm thinking of, but does give it a mention ..
Pakistan and the US: Quarrel or Divorce? .. one bit ..
4. Pakistan has some of the same enemies as the United States. Both are threatened by the neo-Taliban, including the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan or Pakistan Taliban Movement. They have a difference of opinion over the fundamentalist Haqqani Network, which the US views as a terrorist organization but which the Pakistani military sees as an authentic Afghan group that is allied with Pakistani interests.
Afghanistan is a proxy war between India and Pakistan
When Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai visited New Delhi earlier last month to sign a strategic partnership deal, he quickly reassured Islamabad it remained Kabul's most important partner.
LOL, pardon me this, but there's a long term thought that pops it a longing brain every once in awhile .. lol .. it would be highly controversial, and of a very authoritarian brainwashing nature, but just for fun, i guess, i have a recurrent vision of aerial spraying of a life-lasting 'love dust' over the Middle East, the Pentagon and other areas defined as needy .. can just see it .. ALL the antagonists hugging and cheering and laughing and dancing together .. can't you just SEE THEM! .. Like i said .. pardon me .. LOLOL ..
We really must laugh and feel smiley as much as we can .. haha .. :)
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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