Islamic chutzpah

Pakistan/s government, military and intelligence community are either unbelievably incompetent for allowing Osama bin Laden to live as a neighbor to the country's military academy, or at least as complicit in sheltering that mass murderer as the Taliban was in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.

Yet that country, which receives billions in aid from the United States annually, has the unmitigated chutzpah to see our bringing bin Laden to justice as a violation of its national sovereignty.

I understand that a certain amount of kow-towing to domestic Islamofascisism is necessary for the Pakistani government's self-preservation. I also understand the strategic importance of our relationship with the Pakistanis.  But this is going much too far. Barring an apology, an adequate explanation, and an appropriate amount of professed mortification on the part of our Pakistani "friends" for the residence of the author of 9/11 not only on its soil but right under the government's nose, it's time to cut off our aid to Pakistan.

Given the circumstances, this is simply not the way friends act, however embarrassed they may be at having been caught either not knowing what was going on in their own back yard or stabbing us in the back by keeping us in the dark about bin Laden's presence.

HT: Drudge