Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

A colonial war is a very dirty kind of war. You're not fighting armed forces. You're fighting mostly unarmed people. And to fight that kind of war requires professional killers, which means mercenaries.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It's also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.