On Fareed Zakaria’s “GPS,” TAC contributing editor Andrew Bacevich deems Afghanistan only “of marginal interest to the United States.” Pakistan is the real center of regional gravity. Thus we must ask whether deploying thousands more troops in an Afghan surge strengthens of destabilizes that more vital security concern. Bacevich answers, “We’re pushing the Taliban into Pakistan, we’re increasing the Islamist threat to Pakistan as a result of our presence in Afghanistan. … Remaking Afghanistan is something that we’re not capable of doing, that we cannot afford to attempt to do, and that frankly is unnecessary.”