I particularly like Mullen's insight about Pakistan, a country with which he has perforce spent much time working.
Increasingly, it became clear to Mullen that Pakistan's problems were embedded in the economic, political and cultural fabric of the country. They're on "a declining glide slope," Mullen explains, and this isn't something America can fix.I am increasingly pessimistic about the chances of an Islamic country operating a modern, capitalist democracy. For awhile, it looked like Ataturk's rigid separation of church and state might enable Turkey to pull it off. Now, under Erdogan, not so much.
