Don't panic!

Realism and relief re. one of the moment's scariest issues - Pakistan.

This week, Bill Moyers presented a reassuringly reasonable discussion involving some very smart and experienced grown-ups who happen to be both more realistic and more optimistic than most of the politicians and mediaticians out there.


Click on this if you'd like to sleep a little better tonight.


Juan Cole and Shahan Mufti, who know whereof they speak, assure Moyers that the nukes are safe and we can all just chill about the Taliban irregulars, who may be a bunch of bad guys, but who are a relatively small, unpopular, and not especially powerful bunch of bad guys.