What is it about Pakistan that has immobilised thinking in Washington? For decades Pakistan has been actively harming the US while pretending to be its friend and Washington has swallowed the horse dung without any analysis or reproach. The 9/11 attacks were planned by the ISI and the financing was routed through Pakistan. A report in the Wall Street Journal reported that the ISI is urging mid level Taliban to fight US soldiers while the country is surviving on US aid. Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomber has just been sent to jail for life. Last week the US was advising it citizens to avoid crowded palces in France, Germany and Britain because they suspected an imminent Mumbai style attack. Drone strikes killed 2 British citizens and 5 Germans of Pakistani origin training as terrorists in North Waziristan. Following the death of 3 Paki soldiers in a hot pursuit incident Pakistan closed a supply route to Afghanistan causing a build up of trucks. At least 40 trucks have been blown up by militants. The US had to apologise humbly to get Pakistan to reopen the border crossing. Half of Pakistan would starve without US aid and Paki army would not be able to kill Indians without US supplied planes and arms. If the US stopped all aid to Pakistan would China and the Gulf states be able to fill the void? Impossible. In fact China is taking advantage of the survival of Pakistan by giving nuclear weapons and building nuclear power plants to increase its danger to India and the west. The only way is to stop all aid, including food aid, cancel all diplomatic contact with Pakistan and bottle its citizens inside its borders. Caged animals cannot bite.