Waiting for a call from Joe

Sitting by the phone: But there is little Imran Khan can do in a few minutes to detoxify the American president’s thoughts.

IS a call from US President Joe Biden to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan going to decide the fate of humanity, or of Afghanistan and Pakistan – singly or collectively? The answer seems to be a yes, going by the perturbation over the issue in some government circles who seem never to have bothered to know how the American “system” circumscribes a president’s ability to be on his own.

Americans by the very nature of their education are focused on their country. This is one of their major advantages and has made America great, but it also translates into a shocking inability to grasp the intricacies of a foreign, especially non-European, problem. Yet, in spite of this legacy, some American executives excelled at geopolitics.