Pakistan is given a deadline?

[hot_pastrami]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

And the administration certainly has more control over their own armed forces that over the Pakistani secret service.

That has a flipside, though... it would be relatively easy for a US serviceman to step up and tell the world the truth if such a thing were to happen, and he/she would be widely believed. If a Pakistani secret service person agent told the same story, we'd probably never even hear about it here, and if we did, it would be met with skepticism. Moreover, it would be more in the interest of the Pakistani people to keep it a secret than it would a US serviceman.

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

Why is so much easier to assume unmitigated evil on the administrations part than to question the reliability of an extremely suspect source?

Because to my knowledge, the Bush administration has lied to me more often. Trust belong to those who earn it... or at least to those who haven't betrayed it.

[smoothmoniker]

Originally Posted by hot_pastrami

If a Pakistani secret service person agent told the same story, we'd probably never even hear about it here

huh ...

[hot_pastrami]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

huh ...

The "same story" I refer to is the theoretical future "they rigged his capture for the election" story. No doubt you're thinking that because the very story I linked to was from a Pakistani secret service agent, that their words obviously DO make it this far. That is true, but consider... how many Americans have read this news story, do you think? And of those who have read it, how many would you say believe it? Not large numbers.