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"Pakistan is our enemy."

In many ways you are correct. Let's just say that it's in our mutual self interests to work with Pakistan on this. Keep in mind, Afghanistan is land locked. The only way right now to re-supply our troops over land from a sea port is through the Hindu Kush, i.e. through Pakistan. There seems to be a new route that could open up that India is working with them on and that would involve going through an Iranian port, again that appears to be a non starter for us.

As far as getting anything done in Afghanistan, we have to partner with Pakistan. Yes, they have been an unreliable partner and a lot of that has to do with the whole Pashtun thing. A lot of the IS are infiltrated with tribes from the Pashtun people. As unreliable as they are, we do share a mutual interest with Pakistan in getting rid of Al Qada and the Taliban and on that goal we have to work together. They believe their main enemy is India and so their focus is east. However, they realize that Al Qada and the Taliban are also their enemies. We have to make them elevate that threat in their eyes.