IT’S all happening so fast that analysis seems like a pretty futile pursuit just now.
There you are, all smug about your handy analysis and juicy sound bites, trotting them out to clamorous demand and wham! Mid-sentence something else happens and you have to tear up the sheet and start all over again.
So forget the analysis, mostly anyway, and behold some of the contradictions.
A week ago, as the memogate controversy raged, it looked like the Americans may be up to their tricks again. As curiouser and curiouser comments about The Memo were made, for a while it seemed that anyone in Pakistan could pick up a phone and get a senior American official to comment.
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