[FORUM] Should Pakistan be treated as a rogue state?

[rfmcdonald]

Salman Rushdie's article at The Daily Beast, "Pakistan's Deadly Game", dealt with the effective certainty that elements--at least--of the Pakistani state had been protecting and hiding Bin Laden for years. This fits with a longer history of Pakistani support for the Taliban and for anti-Indian terrorism. His final paragraphs?

For a long time now America has been tolerating the Pakistani double game in the knowledge that it needs Pakistani support in its Afghan enterprise, and in the hope that Pakistan’s leaders will understand that they are miscalculating badly, that the jihadists want their jobs. Pakistan, with its nuclear weapons, is a far greater prize than poor Afghanistan, and the generals and spymasters who are playing al Qaeda’s game today may, if the worst were to happen, become the extremists’ victims tomorrow.

There is not very much evidence that the Pakistani power elite is likely to come to its senses any time soon. Osama bin Laden’s compound provides further proof of Pakistan’s dangerous folly.

As the world braces for the terrorists’ response to the death of their leader, it should also demand that Pakistan give satisfactory answers to the very tough questions it must now be asked. If it does not provide those answers, perhaps the time has come to declare it a terrorist state and expel it from the comity of nations.

And I can't say that he's wrong.

What do you think?