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Originally posted by taxpayer:
Pakistan is a failed state. It's government is unable or unwilling to do the most basic things. Like educate it's children or respond to a disaster, or secure its borders.

In that kind of environment extremists will always find people willing to follow them.

Failed from what? You mean at one time they could do these things?

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...educate it's children...

It appears we can't do it, either.

Apparently not.
U.S Ranks near the bottom

I do think we would beat Pakistan.

Right on to both Bio and taxpayer. It's so frustrating to see how much faith the American People put into media....whose only concern these days is increasing the volume of readers/viewers. I miss the days when the media actually cared more about exposing the truth than the number of customers *sigh*

If you're correct, Gus, than perhaps I simply miss when I was naive enough to believe that.