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June 27, 2011

U.S. Must Take Harder Look at Pakistan

Denver Post, Denver Post

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Much of the nation was naturally focused onPresident Obamalast week as he announced his drawdown schedule for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

But the experts on the region were actually looking elsewhere — at Afghanistan's neighbor, the unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan, which has become an increasingly unfriendly and unreliable American ally.

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