“This will require a review of our policy toward Pakistan, more guarantees to it, more arms aid, and, alas, a decision that our security policy toward Pakistan cannot be dictated by our non-proliferation policy.”

— Zbigniew Brzeziński

Memo to President Carter following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979).

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