South Asia: A Matter of Trust
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James Joyner | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 |
Over the next three days, a high level delegation of U.S., Afghan, and Pakistani officials will meet to “seriously deal with the hard issues: how do the Afghans want to deal with [the insurgent activity on] their border, how to do this better, how to undermine those insurgents that run across their territory,” Laura Rozen reports for The Cable.
As I explain in my New Atlanticist piece, “Trust Deficit Undermines U.S.-Pakistan-Afghanistan Cooperation,” though, it’s a wee bit more complicated than updating tactics. The bottom line is that the three countries don’t much trust one another. And for good reason.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Interesting.
I'm currently working on a post exploring the cocept that the reason the market is tanking is that investors don't trust the WH, either. SOmehting of a parallel, there.
