The brilliant operation conducted by the U.S. Navy SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden should be celebrated, but the information provided so far by the administration leaves many questions unanswered; one of them has to do with Pakistan: it is inconceivable that bin Laden and his entourage could have stayed in their ostentatious compound for five years without elements in the Pakistani security services protecting them; it is bad enough for Pakistan to train and support several local Islamist terrorist groups so that they do Pakistan's bidding in its conflict with India; it is another thing altogether for Pakistan to help hide the leader of a movement that declared war on -- and has pursued active acts of war against -- the United States, and do so while receiving billions of dollars in aid from the United States; we typically use the adjective "ambivalent" to describe Pakistan's attitude toward the war on Islamic terrorism; perhaps it is time to search for another adjective; there are also some intriguing questions about the operational aspects of the raid on bin Laden's compound
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