Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Circle of Life

This weekend's NY Times Magazine has Carlotta Gall's "What Pakistan Knew About Bin Laden".  You don't see it in the online version, but the print has a large box outlined in red, with the text

WHAT
PAKISTAN
KNEW
ABOUT
BIN LADEN


Our supposed ally had a special desk devoted
to managing Osama bin Laden.  How can the U.S. fight
extremism when we're unable to confront it where
it really lives? BY CARLOTTA GALL Photographs by Alex Majoli

This "insight" that Carlotta Gall is now peddling was old in 2005.