If US is a gorilla, Pakistan is a python...

September 30, 2011 17:57

On Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, Cyril Almeida on the standoff with the US.

If the US is the 800-pound gorilla that stamps on itself, Pakistan is like a python which thinks it's crushing its prey, but is really asphyxiating itself.

For a couple of days after Mullen's Haqqanis-are-a-veritable-arm-of-the-ISI allegation last week, it looked like the Americans had finally achieved the improbable: synchronising their tough talk against Pakistan.

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