1. Should the US intervene in Pakistan? 2. How are the politics of Pakistan affecting the people? 3. What is the class/caste social structure of Pakistan? 4. What is the government structure? 5. What is the status/ accessibility to natural resources for the people in general? Water, food. . . . 6. What is the role of the Taliban on a day-to-day basis? 7. How's the economy doing? What is the economic foundation of the country and how likely is it to fail? 8. Why is there anti-American sentiment there? 9. What is the status of Pakistan's military and nuclear weapons arsenal? 10. What's the relationship between the government and the terrorist Groups? 11. Factions in the govt: what are they and what role does keeping them happy play in govt? 12. What is Pakistan's relation with the surrounding nations: India, Afghanistan 13. What's going on in Kashmir? 14. What are Pakistan's elections like? 15. Al Qaeda in Pakistan? Osama Bin Laden? 16. What is India's response to Pakistan's current chaos? 17. Islamic charities: what is their role now and what was it in the past? 18. How are other nations responding to the floods? 19. Will the flood and destabilization affect (delay) US troop pullout of Afghanistan? 20. What is the role of foreign influence in Pakistan (historically, recently, today)?
simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-
is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
resident Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
resident Obama is attempting a triple play this week that eluded his predecessors over the past two decades: simultaneous progress on the most vexing and violent problems in the Middle East — Israeli-Palestinian peace, Iraq and Iran — in hopes of creating a virtuous cycle in a region prone to downward spirals.
It turned out that the reverse was true as well: When one of those efforts fell apart, so did the other two.