By Arif Rafiq
Written
liberally in the style of Goodnight Moon.
In
the great Situation Room
there
was a high-level discussion
and
a red-faced Biden
and
a picture of...
Afghanistan
once America departs
And
there were three little principles sitting on chairs
And
two little deputies And a pair of super-encrypted Blackberries
And
a little toy Predator And a young president
And
the specter of a one-eyed mullah and a very tall Arab and a bowl full of
opium
And
a not-so-quiet old man who was mumbling "counterterrorism"
Goodnight
Karzai Goodnight Abdullah
Goodnight
nation building
Goodnight
ink-stained index fingers
Goodnight
Afghanistan
Good
morning Pakistan
Good
morning Kayani
Good
morning Balochistan Good morning Qilla Abdullah, Pishin, and Quetta Good morning
Karachi
Good
morning Predator and Reaper drones Good morning assassination squads
Good
morning Pakistan National Highway N-25
Good
morning semi-managed chaos
Good
morning stalemate
Good
morning front-loaded withdrawal
Good
night Pakistan.
Arif Rafiq is the
president of Vizier Consulting, LLC and a regular contributor to the Pakistan Policy Blog.
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