I normally write an article in MS Word, then when it is ready, publish it in the blog. This has proved my undoing in the series on Assignment to India. When I started writing about Agra, I ran into a wall. The history of the place is so complicated, and interesting, and I got tangled up in it. I am trying to disengage from that, and get back to just describing my own experiences there. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is pissed about the US flying drones into border areas and so on. I don't blame them. They have a new government, and the loud posturing is obligatory under the circumstances. I also feel that our failure to notify the Pak government in advance of the drone strikes was intentional. Who in Pakistan can one trust, anyway? As usual the lines drawn on the ground by politicians (international boundaries) are more fiction than fact, in the minds of the Pakistani frontiersman. They observe no boundaries, and why should they? This problem will never go away, so get used to it.

Anyone, Barak Obama included, who is critical of the failure to capture or kill Osama Ben Laden is simply a misinformed ignoramus. They have never been there,never will be there, and simply do not know what they are talking about. But sadly, that doesn't matter.

The difference between a politician and a CEO? The CEO is unwilling, even psychologically unable, to pander to the audience of the moment.

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