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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Pakistan Now Greatest Threat To U. S. Interests

August 20th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane

We all have the same "wish"

No Room For Obama’s Rodney King-Like Foreign Policy

Anthony Cordesman, senior scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the world is not shaped by democratic values, international law, good intentions, globalism, rational bargains, or the search for dialogue. His comment reflects the dictum that countries do not have friends but countries have interests. While this may not comport with the Barack Obama “Rodney King” idea of foreign policy it is none the less a fact.

Cordesman argues that U. S. ally Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf’s political demise poses the greatest threat to the U. S. interest now. He cites Musharraf’s opponent’s link with and support from the radical Islamic Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia. He describes roadside markets selling weapons including rocket propelled grenades.

His premise is dire consequences in Afganistan. He talks about black turbaned Taliban extremist openly prowling the countryside on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border fomenting mischief and mayhem.

Pakistan’s government has descended into dysfunction with rampant fuel and food shortages leaving the way open for another military coup as in 1999 that installed Musharraf. Overall a dangerous situation for one of the world’s eight nuclear armed nations.

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  1. Comment by Marshall Ivan Risidin on 20 August 2008:

    India : it has been far too long not to play the India card.An intelligent group [440 million in the top IQ quartile-more than the entire Us population!]. A huge population,300+ million middle class and essentially no natural resources. India represents a back door brake on China.
    Russia has seen this for decades playing “checkerboard diplomacy”–meaning, if you reside next to me you are by definition an enemy, two squares away you are an enemy of my enemy hence a friend.
    The Pakistani situation is most of all an opportunity to side with India, a democracy between two “evil empires”.
    Ivan

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