Pakistan's Failure is the World's Problem

Kapil Komireddi today continues his beautifully written series on the nexus between the failure of Pakistan as a state and America's terror problem. Pakistan's need to justify its existence as a hacked out state from India required it to invent a story of Islamic victimhood - and that story provided much of the ideology for what would become al Qaeda.

Kapil Komireddi today continues his beautifully written series on the nexus between the failure of Pakistan as a state and America's terror problem. Pakistan's need to justify its existence as a hacked out state from India required it to invent a story of Islamic victimhood - and that story provided much of the ideology for what would become al Qaeda. We'll be running three more parts of this urgently important series over the next days. And you can read the prior despatches in order here.