Rich Clabaugh/STAFFFrom Christian Science Monitor:
Washington - Much as the 9/11 terror attacks quickly focused the Bush administration on its relations with Islamabad, last week's terrorist assault on Mumbai (formerly Bombay) only elevates the central preoccupation that Pakistan poses for President-elect Obama.
Already, the deteriorating stability of the world's only Muslim-majority nuclear power has figured in virtually every aspect of the incoming administration's national-security portfolio: from the war in Afghanistan, which is on Pakistan's western flank, to relations with nuclear rival India. If anything, the Mumbai attacks and the growing evidence of involvement by Pakistan-based militants will raise the urgency of developing a new approach to the Pakistan problem.
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My Comment: Since 9/11, Pakistan has always been high on the U.S. priority list. The problem has been Pakistan, and its inability to stabilize their country. Their instability is now bringing grief and hardship to their neighbors.