Pakistan Is the Enemy

September 26, 2011

We know that Pakistan's intelligence service is aiding terrorists. What are we going to do about it?
By Christopher Hitchens

In Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Lt. Milo Minderbinder transforms the mess accounts of the American airbase under his care into a "syndicate" under whose terms all servicemen are potential stakeholders. But this prince of entrepreneurs and middlemen eventually becomes overexposed, especially after some incautious forays into Egyptian cotton futures, and is forced to resort to some amoral subterfuges.

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Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir