School Massacre Unlikely to Prove a 9/11 Moment for Pakistan
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After almost 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told world leaders that they either supported terrorism or opposed it.
Pakistan, a country riven by competing impulses in a violent corner of the globe, does both. The storming of a school in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar yesterday, in which Taliban gunmen murdered 141 people, including 132 children, made clear that approach isn’t working.