How would anyone be able to tell? As Peter Hitchens is wont to say, Pakistan is not a country with an army, but an army with a country. A permanent unit is maintained to stage a coup whenever the generals deem it appropriate, as they do remarkably often.
No civilian politician is allowed anywhere near the nuclear codes. Whereas the “Islamist militants” whose potential acquisition of those codes is supposed to frighten us silly, while they probably do not have them, are certainly too important politically to be left in the outer darkness where these matters are concerned.
And yet, and yet, and yet, and yet… Somehow, what can reasonably claim to be the strangest country in the world, even including North Korea, manages to get by. And will presumably continue to get by, unless anyone is daft enough to bomb her in futile pursuit of Osama Bin Laden.
They should instead be looking to the other country where the oligarchy rules in uneasy alliance with the Islamist clergy, but without even the semblance of a democratic process. It was from there that the 9/11 attacks came. But it is from there that the Bushes’ and the Clintons’ money also comes.
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