One thing is clear from the tragic events in Pakistan today. The Bush White House's policies in that part of the world are a miserable--and dangerous failure. This is not news, alas, but with instability on the rise in Pakistan and the security situation worsening there as militant Islam ascends, we now face a situation with two failed states, side by side-Pakistan and Afghanistan, with U.S. troops and politicians occupied off in Iraq instead of in Afghanistan, where they should have been all along.

The corruption of the Pakistani military is nothing new, though as recent NYTimes stories show, there appears to be some in positions of power who are willing to leak their frustration to the media. Bhutto's assassination was a failure of the security services, who are lavishly paid by the U.S. government.

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