Tariq Ali on The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power

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US Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday praised the recent efforts of the Pakistani Army in bolstering a US military offensive into the semi-autonomous North West Frontier Province. The US wants to target militants who attack its occupation forces in neighboring Afghanistan and then flee into Pakistan to regroup and organize. Pakistan has a new civilian government, having replaced the long-time US ally, President and former General Pervez Musharraf. It faces a challenge that its predecessors have often grappled with: how to deal with the tensions between fundamentalist tribal militias including the Taliban, the Pakistani military that tacitly supports such militias, and the US government that finances the Army? Here in the United States, is has become a central foreign policy issue: what to do about Pakistan, simultaneously an ally in the “war on terror,” and a source of anti-US fundamentalism? To answer these questions is my guest for the rest of the hour - eminent Pakistani born intellectual, historian, political activist, novelist and writer, Tariq Ali. His books include Bush in Babylon, Clash of Fundamentalisms, Pirates of the Caribbean, and his most recent, The Duel: Pakistan in the Flight Path of US Power.

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