Pity the people of Pakistan, trapped between self-serving, complacent elites who preside over a crumbling state, and a rich array of violent extremists who seem determined to tear the same state apart. The extremists promote crisis and the state depends on crisis to persuade people to put vested interests aside, if only for a while.
巴基斯坦的民眾值得同情——他們在夾縫中生存，一邊是自私自滿、統治著這個日漸衰敗的國家的精英階層，另一邊是人數眾多、似乎執意要讓國家分崩離析的暴力極端分子。極端主義者制造危機，政府則借危機來說服民眾放棄本應享有的權益，哪怕只是暫時的。
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