Reality check: Brinkmanship and trust deficit must end

Reality check: Brinkmanship and trust deficit must end

By Shafqat Mahmood

Friday, September 19, 2008

The first question to answer is: can we afford to go to war with the United States? If this sounds harsh let me rephrase it, can we afford to get into an adversarial relationship with the US? My answer is exactly that of Prime Minister Gilani. There is no advantage to an open conflict with the US. We can and should disagree with it. We should also aggressively assert our independence and sovereignty. We should do all this and more but within the paradigm of partnership not as an adversary.

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