In background conversations with reporters, White House officials have begun talking about the unspoken deal with Pakistan: a relatively swift lifting of economic sanctions and a resumption of the country's desperately needed loans from the International Monetary Fund. They made no mention of the fact that Pakistan continues to develop nuclear weapons — which prompted the sanctions — or that it has never satisfied the economic reform demands of the I.M.F.http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/international/20CAPI.html?todaysheadlinesThis is the side of
realpolitik that completely sickens me; it doesn’t take Einstein to figure that the downstream effects of this brave new coalition will inevitably include destabilisation of Pakistan’s own social melting pot together with the proliferation of nuclear risks in the most unstable region of the whole world.
