Over the past week, America has applied a great deal of pressure to Pakistan – trying to determine whether Pakistan aided Osama bin Laden’s years of hiding in Abbotabad. So what should we make of the defiant Pakistani response? How will Pakistan try to look tough for its people and appease the U.S. at the same time? Could the U.S. overplay this hand against Pakistan? And will all that’s happened in the past week help us to crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the months ahead? We ask Dr. Walid Phares, author most recently of “The Coming Revolution” and an adviser to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
