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PERSONAL: Born in Mount Olive, NC; married Tomasa Rodriguez; children: Alexandra, Jonathan.

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Larry P. Goodson is Professor of Middle East Studies at the U.S. Army War College, where he is the only person to hold the General Dwight D.

Weekly Feature. Weekly Roundup. Learn More. Features Book Excerpts About Submissions. Follow Us:. That would be a big mistake. America has abandoned Pakistan before, after the Soviets left Afghanistan in , with regrettable results. Instead, both Washington and Islamabad must break the cynical, transactional bonds of their relationship, and work to form a partnership that supports their long-term, mutual interests.

A most important — and least understood — country America can begin by educating itself about a land of which it remains terribly ignorant. With million people, Pakistan is the sixth-most-populous country on the planet and it has a very young population, with 64 million people 14 years of age or younger. Our fecklessness is due in part to the fact that we know virtually nothing about Pakistan, a place far from and alien to the US