--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] J.Cole: Why US is responsible for crises in Kashmir and Pakistan
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 3:15 PM
> This is a very good piece:
>
> http://www.juancole.com/2008/12/pakistani-reaganism-must-end-new.html
>
> Most US observers, if they are conscious of Kashmir at all,
> don't think of it as something the US caused because the
> problem predated our involvement. But in its present form,
> it is very much something the US caused. And similarly the
> most dangerous problems destablizing Pakistan right now --
> guns, drugs and fanatics -- are all problems that in this
> form they didn't have before we created the Mujahadin.
> They have fundamental problems that precede our involvement.
> But these problems they didn't originally have.
>
> The only minor quibble is that despite Juan's title, we
> can't blame this all on Reagan; it started under
> Brzezinski. But that aside, this is an excellent account.
>
> Michael
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