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Pakistan is a strategically vital country with which we must engage for our own national security.

This is a civil war. Whether you think it was humanitarian intervention or not, this is a civil war.

I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of things to put us on a safer trajectory.

This is not foreign policy. These are acts of aggression against individuals.