Double Game

I know, I know, I keep telling you about Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower. So read it already, and I'll shut up. But I was catching up on New Yorkers and now you have more Wright to read. This time it's his article about Pakistan, The Double Game. Read it and then tell me ...

What is/are the failure(s) here?

(a) Faulty assumptions?

(b) Failure to think one, two, ten or one hundred steps ahead?

(c) Doing anything to begin with?

(d) Inability/Refusal to understand other cultures?

(e) Arrogance?

(f) All of the above?

(g) Some of the above?

(h) None of the above?