We have long had an absurd policy re Pakistan. Condi Rice, our incredibly incompetent Secretary of State, urged Benazir Bhutto to make an ill-advised trip back to her former domain, only to be assassinated, Mafia-style, by alleged al Qaeda operatives (not the ones who hosed down the crime scene immediately after the operation, however).

President Bush was urged by many in Pakistan and in the U.S. to prevail upon the Pakistanis to undertake a U.N. investigation into the perpetrators of this murder, much like the one our President has been cheerleading for years into the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri, former PM of Lebanon.
Intuititively, one would think that the assignation of blame in the one case to Syria, and in the other to al-Qaeda, would actually lay out a stronger case for a full-fledged intvestigation into the latter crime than the former, given that Syria is merely a state sponsor of terror, while al-Qaeda is Terror, Inc., itself.

But no. Al-Qaeda can wait, as it always does, while the Shiite Crescent and regions adjacent take priority.
Now, apparently, our friends (the ISI, I mean) have decided to blow up embassies, too.

It was, according to a State Department official, an 'aha' moment.

Some of us catch on slower than others...