I think of it as kind of concentric circles. And I think the future of Pakistan, as Musharraf and his people fully understand, is to de-radicalize elements of the population that were radicalized by the Afghan experience. But yeah, these educational systems need to change. They are doing it through mechanisms of standards for the madrasas, of improving technical and literacy education and trying to move them away from places where just kind of propaganda is taught.
But their feeling to Japan is very, very, very, deep.
I think that you will see Prime Minister Abe try to make some improvements and I think the Chinese will be receptive to that.
You can have the technology and be integrated into the international system.
I think there are a lot of self-regulating reasons for Japan to remain non-nuclear. " The nature of diplomacy is to try without compromising the critical principles or critical strategic interests to bring others on board to your way of thinking about something. We had that discussion early on. I think of it as kind of concentric circles. There was this stable Middle East and somehow the policies of the United States, including the decision to finally take down Saddam Hussein, have destabilized this stable Middle East. We were just talking about the Shia-Sunni issue.
We got drawn into World War I but nothing in the basic structure changed in Europe. Now, I could say, oh, absolutely not, we said on this day, tomorrow, we were going to do this.
We got drawn into World War I but nothing in the basic structure changed in Europe.
Well, it depends on how you define the core of the war on terror. And I think the future of Pakistan, as Musharraf and his people fully understand, is to de-radicalize elements of the population that were radicalized by the Afghan experience.
State Department photo by Michael Gross. So we have to speak directly to that. But the question is: Is that enough? But we also have to look at the sort of geostrategic changes that this can bring about in the long term.
And I think most people believe that India can be as a part of a broad proliferation regime actually helpful to the nonproliferation effort.
The situations are just simply very different. Well, it depends on how you define the core of the war on terror.
We of course continue to have excellent relations with Chile.
The Chinese are reasonably, you know, self-interested themselves.
So you have to mobilize the regional states.
And I think you get into a stronger position that way. Well, it depends on how you define the core of the war on terror. But the question is: Is that enough?
And they are as a result failing in their governance.
Is that anything real or is it just rhetorical? And that meant policies that had also to pressure allies into broader democratization.
We of course continue to have excellent relations with Chile.
But yeah, these educational systems need to change.