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No good options of the U.S. in Pakistan amarcnn | July 13, 2011 at 9:57 am | Categories: Aid, From Fareed, Military, Pakistan, Strategy, United States | URL: http://wp.me/p1bJgh-27b

Editor's Note: The following is an edited excerpt from a transcript of Fareed Zakaria answering viewer questions online. 

By Fareed Zakaria, CNN

The United States just announced that it is going to suspend $800 million of military aid to Pakistan. Once there is better dialogue between Pakistan and the U.S., the aid will resume.

Is this the right way to deal with Pakistan?  It's very tough to say.  If you don't engage with Pakistan -- if you don't try to modernize the society and help the military – the country has a tendency of moving toward very fanatical elements such as Islamic militants.

That's what happened in the 1990s when the U.S. left the scene. America abandoned Afghanistan and isolated the Pakistanis. So Pakistan banded up with the Taliban.  The Taliban entered Afghanistan on Pakistani tanks. When the Taliban came to power, they let Al Qaeda in.

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