[yooper]

Blackwill. Don't know this guy. Don't care.

But I have known many Indians and several Pakistanis. The US should side with India.

[TopQuark]

Blackwill. Don't know this guy. Don't care. BUt you should care whether your gov't functions effectively and fairly.

[WOSG]

"Blackwill began to get increasingly out of step with the pro-Pakistan line of the US State Department."

You are right. The US should side with India. What shocks me is why the State Dept thinks he is out of line - *they* are out of line.

The State Dept seems deaf dumb and blind to obvious nature of corrupt Islamic govts. India is a democratic multi-cultural state, growing economically and managing to be a stable govt more or less for 60 years. A natural ally that shares some of our values and sends its best and brightest as immigrants here. pakiston OTOH is an authoritarian nation that is ruling a rabble of backwards-thinking muslims. it's a failed govt and a failed economy, that by the way has ponsored terrorists, the taliban and helped North Korea get the bomb. ...

And which country would the state dept favor??? hmmm??? Are there Jihadist moles in there???