Posted on 08/17/2006 6:34:36 AM PDT by John Carey
After last week's dramatic bagging of suspected airline bombers, one of the subtexts of the story still emerging is the key cooperation and involvement of Pakistan's government and intelligence services.
Widespread media reporting on Pakistan's role as super-partner of the U.S. and Britain in the war against terror needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
The complexities of Pakistan are not well understood in the west. As Sumit Ganguly, author of "Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947," reported in Foreign Affairs, "Given the signal importance of Pakistan to U.S. foreign policy these days, the lack of informed commentary on the country is striking."
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Great piece. A must read for the dunces in our State Department.
From heroin dealing to BCCI to nuclear proliferation, Pakistan has been the nexus of Muslim evil for the past several decades.
time to cull the herd
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