Excellent program.

This was rambling and about 20 minutes too long. The topic sections within the diavlog work best when the subject areas are exhaustive and well-defined. Instead, many diavlogs seem to be divided into sections after the fact. Here was also a diavlog where a reporter and an insider would have worked best. Maybe it's because it's August vacation time, but many diavlogs are becoming second-best commentaries from generalists, not area experts with specific information to give. Also, 'heads don't often respond to previous commentators on a similar topic. An earlier diavlog featuring Hurlburt and Farley overlapped this one. Finally, I didn't learn about Pervez Musharraf as leader or person. Amid stray comments about US elections was a lot of dross. very disappointing!

Jacob Heilbrunn’s sense of humour is too sophisticated to actually say it, but mine isn’t: An expanded role for Gitmo: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/137...4:24&out=14:37

Isn't Pakistan two countries: an urban, educated, English speaking elite, and a rural, uneducated, fervently religious majority? Where are the madrassas in this diavlog? Not less than 30,000 new madrassas in Pakistan, 15% are radical, graduating how many thousands of young religious radicals every year? Who provided the financing for construction of all those new madrassas? Or worse, who provided the clerics for any of those madrassas that are Wahhabi? Where's Mawdudi's radical puritanism influence in this diavlog? Or, the influence of the Deobandi? How about a discussion in the diavlog of the linkage of the ISI with the major tribal influence? The two Waziristan provinces already appear to be all but lost to the Taliban, who some time ago declared their 'Islamic Republic of Waziristan.' The Northwest territories are next? Isn't Pakistan two countries: An eastern and southern portion which is heavily populated by educated elites, and a western and northern portion where the truths of the ninth century still operate? As for the "price of inflation" as the majority concern in Pakistan, says who, outside the bubble of the elites? And finally, what is with the paranoid fascination with "neo-cons" in this diavlog? Mr. Bush is certainly no neo-con, nor is Ms. Rice. Why do "progressives" ever