How to get Pakistan to break with Islamic militants

By Zalmay Khalilzad, Published: June 30, 2011 In his Afghanistan speech last week, President Obama said we must “address terrorist safe havens in Pakistan.” He vowed to “press Pakistan to expand its participation in securing a more peaceful future,” “work with the Pakistani government to root out the cancer of violent extremism” and “insist that it keep its commitments.” Missing …

Obama’s Drawdown Disaster

By Zalmay Khalilzad | June 27, 2011 Many factors, both domestic and international, must have shaped the President’s decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next summer. Realities in Afghanistan suggest that his course of action involves excessive risks. President Obama asserted that “the tide of war is receding” and that troop reductions were taking place from “a position …