Bomb Pakistan? No.

Wow. Apparently, according to Mother Jones, the point of my brief 500-word piece last week was to "float" the idea of bombing Pakistan.

Of course, that wasn't the point at all. The point was - simply put, so that Mother Jones can understand it - that our relations with Pakistan are a mixed bag. As I wrote, Musharraf's government should be given credit for helping to break up the largest terrorist plot since 9-11. On the other hand, the plot was launched by al Qaeda operatives from (reportedly) Pakistani soil. So, the question arises: What do we do about it?

There are no easy answers. For the record, I am not arguing for the indiscriminate bombing of Pakistan - or any bombing at all, actually. The one bombing I even mentioned was a limited attack on a house where Ayman al-Zawahiri was thought to be holding court. That attack missed al Qaeda's number 2, but did kill other senior al Qaeda operatives.

That's all.