Obama’s effort to strike a Faustian bargain with the Afghan Taliban, whose top leaders enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan, indicates that he is more interested in confining terrorism to the Middle East than defeating it – even if it means leaving India to bear the brunt of terrorist activity. (In fact, Pakistan’s ongoing war of terror against India also sprang from America’s anti-Soviet operation in Afghanistan – the largest in the CIA’s history – as the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence siphoned off a large share of the billions of dollars in military aid for the Afghan rebels.)
奥巴马想与阿富汗塔利班达成浮士德式的交易，而后者最高领袖在巴基斯坦逍遥法外，这表明他更想将恐怖主义限制在中东，而不是击溃恐怖主义——即使这意味着印度将成为恐怖主义的首当其冲者。（事实上，迄今仍在进行的巴基斯坦与印度的反恐战争也源于美国在阿富汗的反苏行动——这也是中央情报局历史上规模最大的行动——因为巴基斯坦三军情报局（Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence）随后继承了给阿富汗叛军的数十亿美元军事援助的大头。）