Thursday, May 12, 2011

Pushing Pakistan to act

A couple of stinging columns from Fareed Zakaria (an Indian-born Muslim-American) and Zalmay Khalilzad (an Afghan-born Muslim-American).

Zakaria quotes someone telling him:
""It's like a person, caught in bed with another man's wife, who is indignant that someone entered his house," one Pakistani scholar, who preferred not to be named for fear of repercussions, told me."

whereas Khalilzad writes:
"The killing of Bin Laden only 60 miles from Islamabad, its capital, has put Pakistan on the defensive, and the nature of our strike capability is not lost on Pakistani leaders and their terrorist and insurgent clients."

Perhaps Pakistan should be worried about the Muslims from its neighboring countries that are growing more and more skeptical of it than what the United States wants to do with it?

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