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A Dangerous Void

The crisis in Pakistan leaves the US with few policy options. Large injections of cash are no alternative to the real issue, which Obama certainly cannot address: the lack of leadership in a country that teeters on the edge of chaos.

Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and author, most recently of Descentinto Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.Rights: © 2009 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. YaleGlobalOnline

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