If you want Americans to pay attention to Pakistan — not an easy thing to do — your best bet is to conjure up images of Armageddon. The Obama administration, being put out with the Islamabad government, has decided understatement is no virtue. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently pronounced Pakistan nothing less than "a mortal threat" because it is "abdicating to the Taliban."

If you've heard the scare story, you probably haven't slept in days. Th ...

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