After five years of Taliban rule, no country in the world has fewer friends than Afghanistan. Of the six countries that border it-Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan (all fellow-Muslim states) and China—not one has come forward to argue against the imminent anti-terrorist attack. Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, indeed, have offered assistance to America and its allies. Even China, normally among the shrillest critics of "American hegemonism", will not rock the boat.
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