Steve Coll on Pakistan

One of the great things about the blogosphere is that, simply by having an email address and becoming obsessed with a particular topic for a couple of days, one can, for free, give writing assignments to a Pulitzer-winning expert on that topic.

Here is Steve Coll's thoughtful post on the current situation in Pakistan (I know that I'm the reader he mentions because he quickly responded to my request by saying that he would work on it, and because who else was sending emails like that last weekend?)

Above all, he reminds that we are not in a struggle against Pakistan. We are in a struggle with many of their democratic forces, and sometimes with their military, against Al Qaeda and the local Taliban.