Pakistan is a very important link in the War on Terror and has been helpful in a lot of ways but not as helpful or as focused as it could be. Right now there are a lot of major challenges about the ability of the current government to deliver and to marshal the kind of resources necessary to accomplish the task. The border areas in Pakistan are alarmingly out of control, and they are contributing to instability in Afghanistan as well as in Pakistan. Unless the government exhibits a greater ability to target its own resources to deal with this both militarily and in the social economic structure, it’s going to be very, very challenging for us in the next years. There are enormous issues which this hearing obviously is geared to focus on.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm and is filed under Politics, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security .