This is a really excellent article by Manan Ahmed exploring the long tradition of pronouncing Pakistan to be on the bring of collapse. His point is that the American establishment has a marked tendency toward discomfort with any civilian government in Pakistan, leading to a cycle of proclamations of failure followed by coups that does little to solve anything.
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