The Drumbeat Against Pakistan

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.

With our recent, ongoing and adjacent track record, we should keep it that way.