Is Pakistan Guilty?

So it seems that much of the discussion regarding Osama bin Laden's death has come to revolve around the question of whether or not Pakistan knew where he was and willfully harbored him, even while receiving U.S. aid and pledging to assist in the War on Terror.

It is a stupid question.  A really, really stupid question.  Pakistani regimes of the past couple decades or so have been in a very tenuous position.  They have essentially had to find ways to appease the jihadist elements of the country to avoid an uprising, without simultaneously alienating the more "secular" movements.  If Pakistan had been more aggressive in their anti-terror efforts, and more faithful to their alliance with the U.S., the regime could very well have been toppled.

The U.S. should never, EVER try to do anything to provoke instability in Pakistan because they have nuclear weapons!!  So, if the Pakistani government had taken actions that basically amounted to political suicide, then Osama bin Laden and his crew would essentially have nuclear weapons at their disposal.  Would THAT have been good??


There really wasn't anything Pakistan could have done.  Shut up everyone.