Our Friends the Pakistanis

Having Pakistan as an ally in the war on jihadi terrorism is more and more like having Soviet Russia as an ally against Nazi Germany. I know we need Pakistan, but I'd like them to lose almost as much as I want the terrorists to lose, and I fear they will gain from this alliance and become our main problem after we've defeated the Islamist terrorist threat.

Exhibit 114:

U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

The buildings in northwest Syria closely match the design of a uranium enrichment plant provided to Libya when Moammar Gadhafi was trying to build nuclear weapons under Khan's guidance, officials told The Associated Press.

Thanks, Pakistan!

On the bright side, it doesn't seem to have been ultimately used for nuclear work, and is now a cotton-spinning facility. (Isn't that a lot like having a Grail-shaped beacon? You'll have to go to 9:30 in the clip.)

One of these days, Alice.