[conservatism_IS_compassion]

did you really think that [being an American whose ancestral home is Scotland] is a parallel example?

Afghanistan and Pakistan are neighboring muslim countries who share a porous border. It would hardly be amazing to learn that emigration had ocurred across the border, with the emmigrants and their children living in Pakistan but considering Afghanistan their "ancestral home."

So I think you're barking up the wrong tree, myself.

[JohnGalt]

I am sure there is a reasonable explanation, but he put his name to a sloppy column where he says he does not care about socialism at home, claims he is a Pakistani who visited his ancestral homelands in Afghanistan, and then refers to 'his country' rather ambiguously, though I see many just assumed he meant the United States...me? not so sure...