This news doesn’t surprise me at all as the Pakistani leadership—like that of Saudi Arabia—has pandered to fundamentalists to help keep them in power, though the Saudis have been doing it for much longer. The GOP would do well to take heed to how ugly things can get when one goes that route.

The thing that annoys me to no end is that these regimes receive our support. I realize there’s a practical reason for that, but it chafes nonetheless.