Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Disamba na 1971, yakin Indiya na uku na Indo-Pakistan
ya fashe, kuma Amurka duk da kasancewa tsaka tsaki ta kasance kamar yadda Kissinger ya sanya shi "mai karkata" zuwa Pakistan, yin duk abin da ke cikin ikonta ba tare da shiga tsakani ba don tallafawa Pakistan. Laird yana da shakku game da shirye-shiryen tallafawa Pakistan, mafi rauni daga cikin ikon biyu, duk da haka yayin da Tarayyar Soviet ke tallafawa Indiya, wanda hakan zai sa rashin nasarar Pakistan ta zama kamar rashin nasara ga Amurka. Gaskiyar cewa gwamnatin Pakistan ta Yammacin Pakistan da Janar Yahya Khan ke jagoranta tana gudanar da yakin neman kisan kare dangi a kan 'yan tsirarun Hindu a Gabashin Pakistan (Bangladesh na zamani) ya sanya Pakistan ta zama abokantaka mai banƙyama, amma Nixon da Kissinger dukansu sun ba da fifiko ga taimakon Yahya Khan a matsayin "mai ba da gaskiya" wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin tashar baya zuwa China. Nixon, yana jin rashin himmar Laird ga Pakistan, ya umarci Kissinger a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1971 don samun Laird don "bi layin Fadar White House".