Zalmay M. Khalilzad, Karzai's Moment of Opportunity - Council on Foreign Relations

The challenge for Washington is now how to use the considerable leverage that the United States has to encourage a strong government to be formed by President Karzai, and for that government to be effective in addressing the key challenges that Afghanistan faces.

A challenge for American diplomacy is how to address the core issue of Afghan-Pakistan relations because as long as there is a territorial dispute between the two, for as long as Pakistan fears an alliance between India and Afghanistan, for as long as Pakistani elements have the desire to dominate Afghanistan, they would hedge or use these insurgencies to have a role in Afghanistan, and we have not been successful during the last eight years to address this issue appropriately. - Karzai's Moment of Opportunity - Council on Foreign Relations

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