What Pakistan Needs

Anatol Lieven writes from Peshawar about the urgent need of U.S. policy to start delivering the goods to Pakistan in terms of some tangible economic development in order for us to secure a viable long-term basis for U.S.-Pakistani security cooperation. The logic is extremely similar to the general idea put forth by Nancy Soderberg and my colleague Brian Katulis in their excellent book The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America–and What We Need in Return. People around the world would like to see the basics — physical and economic security for themselves and their country — and while the U.S. can’t single-handedly deliver all that, we need to be seen as contributing constructively to those aspirations.