May 6, 2009 5:02PM 

# Yglesias on the Topsy-turvy US-Af-Pak Meeting 

By [Malou Innocent](https://www.cato.org/people/malou-innocent) 

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Matt Yglesias [nails it](http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/pakistan-us-relations-are-upside-down.php#comments)[](http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/pakistan-us-relations-are-upside-down.php#comments):

> I don’t know exactly what the issue is, but it doesn’t make sense for the American government to be acting as if this is a bigger deal for us than it is for the Pakistanis.

[Washington’s excessive fear of the Taliban threat](https://www.cato.org/2009/05/05/pakistans-critical-hour/) may be warranted, but the disproportionate response is literally “perverse.”

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