Fisher
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Pakistan already has some fairly democratic structures. Influence of the British
but PNAC's basic thrust, that America's interests are best served when aligned with her beliefs, remains as true today as it was when they formed in the late 90s.
All the Pakistani folks I know here in the US all say that the biggest problem is the graft. They have told me stories of very successful people being driven out of business or out of the country by the unending shake downs by local officials. They say the same parts of the country that give the US pause are the same parts of the country that scare the bejeezes out of them too, but that most of the country would be open to America and the US. That is why doctors will come to the US to become cab drivers. Their only main gripe with the US is that we are so disproportionally on the side of India in the region and, according to them, the Indians are pretty harsh toward the Pakistanis just as people independent of the national political stuff.