Fasten your seat belt and read some courageous reporting from Pakistan

Dexter
Filkins has a
terrific piece in the new, Sept. 19 issue of the New Yorker
that at first glance is just about the recent
killing of a Pakistani journalist, but actually is kind of an overview of
the state of play with the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence agency.

I am glad that he did it, but also
awed that he did it. It takes real nerve to go around Pakistan these days
prying into the ISI's relationship to the Taliban and al Qaeda, and about
whether it is killing journalists -- especially in the country where Danny Pearl
was kidnapped and decapitated for doing something similar.

One item in the article
particularly struck me: A March 17 airstrike by U.S. drones not only killed
some insurgent leaders, but also the ISI officials with whom they were meeting.

Anyone interested in Pakistan
should run out and buy a copy of this article.