"Going to Hell"

"This country is going to hell," said the former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. yesterday as he took a seat in the green room and waited to be interviewed on his latest release. Husain Haqqani made the declaration without malice. He was simply stating the facts as he saw them less than an hour after he heard gunshots fired by Capitol police at a mentally impaired woman.

We now know that this woman had apparently attempted to drive through a barricade at the White House and then struck an officer with her car after a made-for-Hollywood car chase down Pennsylvania Avenue. But at the time, just two weeks after the Navy Yard shooting in the same city and a few days after bikers and an SUV driver engaged in a highway hit, run and brawl, the Ambassador's assertion seemed to have merit.

The same can be said of many arguments the former diplomat makes about the nature of the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan in his book "Magnificent Delusions." It was an interview well worth waiting for the shelter-in-place order to be lifted so our host could join us. A link to the video will be here on November 11th, after the book is released. http://www.amazon.com/Magnificent-Del...

Never a dull day in the nation's capital. But boredom would be a relief every once in a while.