the real threat

"(...) the Islamic Republic of Iran is a modern country with a young, well-educated, politically aware population that takes less interest in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's international showboating on the Holocaust-Israel issue than in 'Zero Degree Turn', a government-financed television documentary about an Iranian diplomat who saves his French Jewish girlfriend during World War II.

Pakistan, on the other hand, teeters on the edge of becoming a failed state; and its hundreds of religious schools, whcih flourish because the state educational system is inadequate, are well known for their advocacy of jihad against the west.

(...) today's Pakistan is surely a far greater threat to America interests than tomorrow's Iran."

(Richard Bulliet, Facing the real threat, International Herald Tribune, hoje)