但巴基斯坦也不曾关注其自身行为的羞辱作用：近四十年来，它一直干预阿富汗以确保“战略纵深 ” ， 让阿富汗在此后多年一直陷于混乱，这是俄罗斯的入侵都没有造成的结果。
Yet Pakistan, too, remains oblivious to the humiliating impact of its own actions: its nearly four-decade-long history of interference in Afghanistan to secure “strategic depth” will leave Afghanistan traumatized for years to come, in a way that Russia-inflicted losses did not.