The United States and Japan have each pledged billions to shore up the country's doddering economy

Pakistan is not that it is a failing state, but that it is, in fact, no state at all. Think of it as a deeply fragmented assemblage

held together by the dual interventions of the mosque and the military.

Sindh, according to Wikipedia, Sindhi has been the sole official language since at least the 19th Century. Urdu – the "national" language – is spoken by only 18 percent of the population.

Balochistan, the largest of Pakistan's provinces, is a hotbed of ethno-linguistic separatism

"Pakistan" is a fiction without any of the "capabilities" – common language, cohesive history, territorial integrity

intervening in the country's internal affairs is actually intervening in a complicated web of relationships between multiple warring nations. It is a mission for which the United States is wholly unprepared.