Bin Laden became superfluous as an actual threat shortly after 9/11. Even so, I'm glad that rock is removed from my shoe.

Pakistan is such a political basket case that I doubt anything the USA does (or doesn't) do will be useful. The military and ISI are corrupt and the political leadership, ineffective. The people don't trust any of them and they distrust each other along ethnic, sectarian, and tribal lines.

In the USA we think 3,000 murdered citizens is a cause for war, and I agree with that. It is good to keep in mind that more than 30,000 Pakistanis have died in a large part, due to the same violent people.

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