ROBERT MAGINNIS: Why Islamabad talks were always doomed to fail ^0%

Fox News - By Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, (ret.) - 4/12/2026, 3:49 PM

Negativity Bias 25.4% - Biased Writer Voice 17.7% - Availability Heuristic 13.7%

Clausewitz wrote that war is the continuation of policy by other means. The corollary—which Washington perpetually forgets—is that diplomacy without strategic clarity is just theater. This weekend in Islamabad, we got the theater. Vice President JD Vance flew to Pakistan to lead the highest-level direct talks between the United States... more