Thomas Friedman with an Iran Strategy

Not-So-Strange Bedfellow

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Here's a little foreign policy test. I am going to describe two countries -- ''Country A'' and ''Country B'' -- and you tell me which one is America's ally and which one is not.
Let's start: Country A actively helped the U.S. defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan and replace it with a pro-U.S. elected alliance of moderate Muslims. Country A regularly holds sort-of-free elections. Country A's women vote, hold office, are the majority of its university students and are fully integrated into the work force.

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