Pakistan’s strategic interest in [Afghanistan] is non-negotiable

Globalist - Britain Resolves, U.S. Wavers - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com: "The Taliban are a Pashtun movement. Pashtunistan straddles the porous Afghan-Pakistani border. Afghanistan has always been ungovernable without a Pashtun buy-in. Pakistan’s strategic interest in that buy-in is non-negotiable. These are basic — but long ignored — building blocks of successful strategy."