cooperation and partnership between the united states and pakistan led up to the elimination of osama bin laden, and the war on terrorism is as much pakistan s war as it is america s, and pakistan has never been the hotbed of fana c fanatics. how can we trust them to be our ally? well, it is a difficult situation, and i thought that secretary albright s remarks were very right-on. they are a important country and have nuclear weapons and at times they have provided significant support, and at other times they have worked against our interest. it is unclear to many observers and i have been in pakistan more than a dozen times whether the government, itself, has full control over its military and its intelligence services. so this is an issue where president zardari is putting the best possible face of it, but the reality is a much more complicated and much less complimentary to pakistan, but