Focus on Pakistan

Re “Extremist group works in the open in Pakistan,” Dec. 18

It is about time we take a close look at Pakistan’s central role in exporting terrorism worldwide. While enjoying billions of dollars of aid from the U.S., Pakistan has been paying only lip service to our demands to rein in homegrown extremists. I get the feeling that they must be laughing behind our backs about how naive Americans are. When we turn up the heat, all Pakistan has to do is act as if it is cracking down on the extremists and temporarily put them in jail; then, when focus shifts to other issues, quietly release them. The real question is, how long are we going to let Pakistan play this game?

Jeff Staloch

Irvine