AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, AND REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM
by COL Philip Lisagor
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Transmittal note:
Please find attached comments I delivered upon returning from the NorthWest Frontier Province in Pakistan in the mid eighties when I was working on a US Aid Project with CIA ties. I was sitting next to the Chariman of the Department at Columbia University on the flight home and I was sharing with him some of my thoughts about Fundamental Islam and these were so different from the conventional wisdom at the time that h einvited me to address his graduate seminar at Columbia. Later as part of an OSIS project through the FMSO (Foreign Military Studies Office) at Ft. Leavenworth I posted these comments as an OSIS document. I have recently reviewed these comments and find them still valuable and wanted to share them with your audience.
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This is a talk given at Columbia University Dept. of Political Science, Southwest Asia Seminar in the summer of 1986 after my return from Peshawar and The NorthWest Frontier Province of Pakistan. This document has also been filed with the OSIS project out of the Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth
Philip Lisagor
COL, USA
COB Speicher
Tikrit, Iraq
UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN SOUTH ASIA:
AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, AND REVOLUTIONARY ISLAM
United States foreign policy, sometimes ill-conceived and confused for the past
decade, continues to face the bewildering challenges of the Islamic World in South Asia. The forces unleashed by the ascendancy of Khomeini in Iran and the invasion of Afghanistan by Russia the following year, are now converging to gravely effect the United States future in this distant part of the world.
