Here’s The Nation out of Abu Dhabi publishing the obvious:
“’The attack on the hotel is a message to the Pakistani leadership: End all cooperation with the Americans or pay the price,’ said Brian Glyn Williams, associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Massachusetts. ‘Both sides see Pakistan as a vital battlefield in their global struggle and clearly Pakistani civilians are paying the price for being in the middle of this struggle,’ he told the Associated Press.

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080921/GLOBALBRIEFING/91392760/-1/SPORT

Is it just me, or is it laughably absurd to offer a “truce” to enemies like al Qaeda?

Obviously, the terrs are not going to let up, ever, so it’s only a matter of time for Pakistan’s latest dabbling in democracy to be subsumed under yet another military government (dictatorship). One is left with the question, why does the other, larger part of old India function as free society? Nah, that’s a stupid question.

Let’s see, history of countries surviving under Islamofascist rule under the Bush Doctrine….