US trying to seduce Asim Munir to get troops to hold up Pax Americana in Middle East. It won’t work.

Ever since Field Marshal Asim Munir’s White House lunch, many in India are fearing the United States is tilting towards Pakistan. That isn’t true. Even as it develops its relationship with India, Trump hopes Munir will be able to supply cheap troops to garrison the expensive ring of bases that today protect the Middle East. That would save Trump billions, but the Field Marshal knows it would open his country to the poisonous political tides of the Middle East—Praveen Swami in Security Code.