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Fear and loathing in Islamabad

September 20, 2008 - 11:51 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Holdfast
2008-09-21 05:23:17

If you can’t control your own border, you are by definition ceding your own sovereignty. A sovereign state can exercise effective control over its own borders, at least most of the time (see other examples of loss of sovereignty due to lack of control of border, including the US southwest).