The trouble with stalwart allies

Ten years ago, Pakistan was dragged - kicking and screaming and on pain of being bombed - into the American camp in the war on terror. It didn't work. Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen told the US Senate that Pakistan had committed an effective act of war against the US. In a neat two-step, he called the Haqqani network - an insurgent group allied to, but distinct from, the Afghan Taliban - a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI. And then he pointed out that the Haqqanis had assaulted the US embassy in Kabul "with ISI support".

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