In the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, one would think that George Butch Jr. might want to gather Dick and Condi and start thinking seriously of a face-saving partial-exit-from-Iraq strategy.
Then, the Administration should do some hard thinking about the subject of future support of Pakistan's current leadership.
Though the film has mostly drifted off the Zeitgeist radar, it wouldn't hurt for people to rent A MIGHTY HEART. The portrayal of Pakistan as being caught between U.S. eagerness for cooperation in fighting the War on Terror and avoiding major unrest from the terror groups using its borders as a safe haven--it's a starting place for discussion of what could be the most serious threat to world safety since the Cuban Missle Crisis.
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