It's amazing that the international effort to eradicate polio succeeded even in the most inaccessible parts of Africa and New Guinea but is apparently at risk in a modern town like Abbottabad.
What evidence would you expect to see? Yet it seems reasonable to assume that with the head of the snake gone the body will eventually stop thrashing.
"‘We should not let ourselves overcome by frustration and pessimism...We believe in one army, one family and one nation and we will have to rise above personal interests and think for a strong Pakistan”
link Sure sounds like a general plotting a coup to me; certainly he acknowledged no civilian authority. Note that all that noise stopped hours after the raid.
All too often I feel the U.S. is looking at it's short-term interests at the expense of strengthening Pakistani democracy. However, the U.S. also doesn't want to be accused of meddling with an ally, and the social history between Pakistan's ruling class and U.S. officials is such that they actively seek U.S. involvement even in domestic affairs, even when U.S. officials don't want to play a role, apparently because Pakistanis trust Americans more than they trust each other -
So the U.S. may want to strengthen "Weimar" Pakistan yet doing so also serves as a crutch that weakens it, yet America can't have Pakistan become a base for terror attacks against it...it's not easy to weigh everything in a moral balance, is it?