{"id":4076,"date":"2011-06-15T13:53:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2011-06-15T13:53:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:53:40","slug":"lieven-on-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4076","title":{"rendered":"Lieven on Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"width\" value=\"640\" \/><param name=\"height\" value=\"390\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MNXPPMPBpyg&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MNXPPMPBpyg&amp;rel=0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Noted foreign policy commentator and academic <strong>Anatol Lieven<\/strong> has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pakistan-Hard-Country-Anatol-Lieven\/dp\/1610390210\">a new book <\/a>on <strong>Pakistan<\/strong>, and holds forth at length here on the always excellent <strong>Conversations With History<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For my part, diplomatic relations with Pakistan amount to our\u00a0stage managing their elite&#8217;s\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low_intensity_conflict\"><strong>LIC<\/strong> <\/a>war against us, <strong>Afghanistan<\/strong> and <strong>India<\/strong> at what our elite perceive <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/15\/world\/asia\/15policy.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">as a tolerable level of affront <\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/rana-verdict-123576044.html\">deceit<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesrecordnews.com\/news\/2011\/jun\/15\/linchpin-hunt-bin-laden-back-al-qaida\/\">and<\/a> violence.\u00a0And we are doing it as expensively as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted foreign policy commentator and academic Anatol Lieven has a new book on Pakistan, and holds forth at length here on the always excellent Conversations With History. For my part, diplomatic relations with Pakistan amount to our\u00a0stage managing their elite&#8217;s\u00a0LIC war against us, Afghanistan and India at what our elite perceive as a tolerable level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,527,205,361,46,78,199,336,125,499,210,18,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-afghanistan","category-al-qaida","category-america","category-analytic","category-ideas","category-insurgency","category-intellectuals","category-islaminsurgency","category-islamic-world","category-islamist","category-war","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}