We don't need Pakistan. No one does.

I am so sick of hearing U.S. officials crowing ad nauseum about how we must keep Pakistan as an ally--despite that

(1) at least half of their military-intelligence power elite hates us, had aided the Taliban and may have done a lot to hide Ben Laden from us;

(2) U.S. Navy Seals and our own intelligence community gave us Ban Laden, not the Pakistanis,despite our giving them nearly $2 billion a year in military aid;

(3) a military dictatorship rules Pakistan, it's civilian government is an impotent showpiece;

(4) Pakistan is NOT strategically located vis a vis our national security--neither China nor Russia wants deeply troubled Pakistan as an alley--in fact, it is, to quote a former secretary of state, the world's greatest "migraine headache";

(5) Pakistan is not a threat to India--our truly most important ally in Southwest Asia and a bona fide democracy--which would in the event of war crush Pakistan in seconds;

(6) Pakistan has nuclear weapons--which we could take out with a few Navy Seal teams or the kind of air strikes the Israelis used to destroy Irag's nuclear potential in the 1980s.

In short, let's end our no-yield love-hate relationship with Pakistan now and let the Pakistanis determine their own future. Clearly, we don't need them, and they don't need us.