and a rogue€™s gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?  In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan€™s involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought they could use Islamic radicals to advance their foreign policy goals without having to pay a steep price.  This strategy worked well at first--in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad, in Kashmir in support of a local uprising against Indian rule, and again in Afghanistan in backing the Taliban in the Afghan civil war.  But the government€™s plans would begin to unravel in the wake of 9/11, when the rulers€™ support for the U.S. war on terror caused many of their jihadist allies to

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