All this is to say: Paksitan is not a country, it is a host that certain vital and evil forces use like a large malaria-enervated elephant to launch sorties throughout the region. Come on! 170,000,000 people my ass. The Baloch don’t like it, the tribals (30,000,000) don’t like it, the Punjabi are their own thing, the feudals are the lords, subject to the sophistication of the ISI and military, who maintain a judicial system and electoral system to maintain a certain minimal UN (anglo-saxon) compliant credibility – so that the relevant parties can continue looting the place.

well it looks like the ISI is winning the battle of the aristocracies there because ISI is endangering the minimal symbiosis required between host and parasite.

and everyone knows this. maybe the slowness, the Asiatic slowness, of this situation will eventually allow us to avoid world war, but folks there may be something very bad coming down the line. now is not the time to reduce the investment in a large conventional army.