FAILED!!!

Pakistan is like the Republican Party: FAILED. Pakistan is not a real country; it is only the shadow of one - like the Republican Party. Try to grasp it, and your hand comes away empty. Sticks do not bring the dead back to life, nor do carrots. Neither does pretending that the dead are alive.

Where both HRC and JB's arguments break down into nonsense is by trying to have it both ways. Either Pakistan or the Republican Party are certifiably dead, or they are not. If, as JB continues to intimate, that the Republican Party is dead or dying, let it go in peace and hope that whatever supplants it will prosper. Care for it; nurture it. Rip out the old stump and burn it. Why even waste time discussing it?

Same with Pakistan. Why must we pretend it's a vibrant democracy when we all can see it's a sink-hole (albeit, a sink-hole with nukes). Maybe it's become too dangerous to let it go on. So, what are we (still militarily the world’s most powerful country) going to do about it? Seems to me we have a crisis in leadership. Once reduced to the size of Denmark (as Obama seems to want us), then we can start wringing our hands. As for now, should anything bad happen over there (or in Iran, for that matter), we have no excuse. We’ve had plenty of warnings.