In her testimony to the Congress, Hilary Clinton opined that Taleban is an existential threat to Pakistan, a nuclear armed state. At long last the Americans are becoming foggily aware of how dangerous a country Pakistan truly is but they have still not grasped the truth, which is that Pakistan is an existential threat to itself. This was a state born out of hatred and has been surviving on that bile for 60 years. Since its conception its leaders and people have fixed their eyes on India and every activity has been designed to compete with and try to destroy my country. For sixty years the US in its stupidity, born of its cold war hatred of the USSR, supplied the Pakis with money and weapons choosing to view our nonalignment as an aggressive posture. It financed the ISI which in turn financed the mujahiddin against the Russians and subsequently formed the Taleban to drive out their old friends in Afghanistan. Alas once the demons are let out of their cesspool they will naturally refuse to go back. So now the US faces the possiblity of the Taleban taking over nuclear weapons and greater losses in Afghanistan. Interestingly North Korea has adopted a far more aggressive stance and has captured two US journalists probably from inside China. Iran has speeded up its centrifuges and sentenced a US/Iranian journalist to seven years in prison. Suicide bombings have suddenly restarted in Iraq and Somali pirates are attacking American ships. It is possible that along with the economic crisis, President Obama's friendliness is being perceived as weakness born out of necessity. Will Obama's outstretched hand gradually turn into a clenched fist. Interesting.