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.
巴基斯坦的民众值得同情——他们在夹缝中生存，一边是自私自满、统治着这个日渐衰败的国家的精英阶层，另一边是人数众多、似乎执意要让国家分崩离析的暴力极端分子。极端主义者制造危机，政府则借危机来说服民众放弃本应享有的权益，哪怕只是暂时的。
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