I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.

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