Yeah, I still don’t understand the Pakistan thing. Pakistan:

• harbored Osama bin Laden
• has pretty uninteresting economic output
• has serious beef with their much larger neighbor India, and are somewhat friendly with Iran and China

Whereas India:

• has a ton of people
• already has pretty extensive economic ties to the US, which could be strengthened, and is a ripe alternative to China for production
• has tensions w/ China, so we have mutual enemies
• is highly unlikely to harbor any of our enemies

Yet we keep them at arm’s length.

I could say the same for Israel and Saudi Arabia. Why are we so intent on picking the worst possible countries in a given region? The only explanation is that we want war…