I've read a bunch of stuff about Pakistani attitudes towards America recently, and I've been shocked by the level of lies that people just take for granted there. It's simply amazing to see what people who have what are obviously otherwise fairly decent intentions can be duped into believing. If I had not seen the same type of phenomenon at far lesser levels elsewhere I would have had trouble believing what I've been seeing.

This situation is truly reaching crisis proportions. We have got to do more about it, and enlist our Pakistani allies in the effort as well. The US like every other country in the world isn't perfect, but the truth is so far removed from the fictions the average Pakistani citizen is surrounded by that it's stunning.

The effort has to be one of both civil diplomacy & military diplomacy. At this point there's quite obviously no place for any of the stakeholders to go but up.