Awesome site. (And their post on American sensationalism on Pakistan)

Arabic Media Shack is an awesome site I just found out about by way of Marc Lynch.

For example, in this post, they mention an amazingly nuanced and realistic interview on of a French professor who is an expert on Pakistan.

Her expertise lead her to the following, which sounds much like the analysis of Pakistani journalist Shahan Mufti and Juan Cole on Bill Moyers last Friday:

"Q: “do their goals include all of Pakistan.”
A: Definitely not. They will not try to take control of Islamabad for example, despite what the Americans fear. In reality, there is no reason to be afraid of this because this is not what the Taliban wants to do. In any case, neither the Americans or the Pakistani army would let issue go that far. Also, the Taliban groups have a very marginal presence in Pakistani society in general."