The Analogy that Couldn't Be Made!

Andorra = the Pushtun

It's a fact that Andorra exists at all, exists in the mountains between Spain and France, because it was able to play off its religious rulers, Spain, from its temporal ones, France.  The Pushtun, also have to learn to balance their religious leaders from Pakistan and their nationalist supporters, from Afghanistan.

Yes, I'm being completely serious, as I always am, about everything, all the time.  Not.