"After all, we know Pakistan's intelligence service -- the ISI -- was riddled with Taliban and AQ sympathizers prior to the war. So there's no reason to think that's changed entirely." That's a rather gross understatement. It's not as if the Taliban took over one day, official Pakistani policy was anti-Taliban, but a whole bunch of Taliban sympathizers were working in the bureacracy. The Taliban didn't exist until it was created as a deliberate tool of Pakistani policy. The government helped arm, equip, and fund it, actively supporting their efforts to establish total domination over Afghanistan while at the same time the Taliban was sheltering Osama bin Laden and the 9-11 plotters were readying for the attack. And while al-Qaeda per se was not a creation of the Pakistani government, Pakistan was along with Saudi Arabia, the main creator of the international network of Islamist fighters out of which al-Qaeda grew.
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