Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by Agence France Press, "US Defends Deadly Pakistan Air Strike."
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Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by Agence France Press, "US Defends Deadly Pakistan Air Strike."
The United States defended itself against charges its forces killed 11 Pakistani troops in an incident Wednesday that threatened to worsen already tense ties with its key war-on-terror ally.
The US-led coalition in Afghanistan admitted carrying out an air strike in Pakistan Wednesday but said it targeted militants — not the Pakistani soldiers — and that its response was coordinated with Pakistan. [...]
Rick Barton, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, echoed his remarks.
"The new government needs to be encouraged," he said. "When the US makes mistakes of this sort, it produces pressure, and it will produce instability." Read the article
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