wretchard wrote:

Seymour Hersh has an 8 page article in the New Yorker …. The wheedling, perpetually offended and self-righteous nature of America’s ally is evident on every page alongside with Washington’s self-deception to provide a Laurel and Hardy style tragi-comedy which would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.

Are you quite sure this is just not the personal flavor of Hersh being projected into the article? Just sayin’, ya know?

A friend from Madras maintains that the issues in that part of the world are Pakistani in origin. I think that he is right and now the American Western world is finding out what a feckless dangerous bunch they are. Since their founding (Pakistan) was done in such an underhanded manner, essentially the dictates of Islam say that the country should become part of the ummah (Dar al Islam) as opposed to Dar al Harb, what can we really expect? That the Paks should suddenly change their stripes?

oMan @ 11: You are so right. wretchard can be SO clear and succinct.