US and Pakistan relationship on a knife-edge of mistrust

Richard N. Haass looks at the risks involved as the United States’ relationship with Pakistan deteriorates into a Twitter shouting match.

Richard N. Haass looks at the risks involved as the United States’ relationship with Pakistan deteriorates into a Twitter shouting match.

Harold Brown, the US defence secretary under President Jimmy Carter, was reported to have described the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union in these terms: “When we build, they build. And when we don’t build, they build.”