One way the Pakistani government resembles the Bush administration

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Monday, December 20, 2010 - 8:20 AM Share

Both had senior officials who apparently outed a CIA officer.

Meanwhile, the polo players of Lahore are doing their part for the less fortunate. I get the creepy feeling that America is becoming more and more like Pakistan. It reminds me of something I heard around 2003:

You Americans think you are going to make the Middle East more like you … but I think we will make you more like us."

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BILL KELLER

8:27 AM ET

December 21, 2010

Maybe there is some hope

....the audience is reading C.S. Lewis "Mere Christianity" when the Murdoch sideshow barkers go to commercials. Who knows? If Japan can crave fried chicken in a bucket on Christmas Day, maybe America will crave decency in civil society, again. A thought as we go to the low end solstice...maybe the lights on the tree will bring the sun back.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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