That was a very good post, Art.
And I agree.
I have felt Pakistan was where the real trouble lay, but I also know a bit about our nations'"security" from the State Dept. mainly with that country. it goes back a looooong way.

Our hands are very, very dirty there.
And you're right, everyone just glossed it over.

We even let their chief nuclear engineer go scott free after selling nuke material to both North Korea and Iran. Excused him.
And no one touches the problem of their head of the ISS (military secret service) who was in Washington on the morning of 9/11 perhaps holding our State Dept. by the balls. Hell, he had just wired Mohammed Atta $100,000 a few months before.

And Daniel Pearls' wife is suing Pakistan officials for supplying Al Queda with the money to finance and train the barbaric radicals who beheaded her husband.
To be continued.........