Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Fox also touched upon the Pakistan part of the AfPak theater, and said
that those two are inseparable. A collapse in Pakistan would mean that
regional success would be impossible – but at the same time, Pakistan
is not ready to fight terror within its own borders and in the Swat
Province. To the Pashtu tribes there, the majority-Punjabi Pakistan
Army might as well be foreign. Furthermore, a collapse of a nuclear-
armed state would be a nightmare for the West, both in the region and
in the broader sense.
Finally, Fox noted that we are entering a crucial and historic stage of
war in Afghanistan – the time is running out, but we need to stay the
course. However, the time is running out, and there will be some tough
decisions (against the public opinion) that governments on both sides
of the Atlantic will have to make.