I could not agree more what Mr. Zakaria has stated in this article.  The USA has been providing military as well as financial assistance to Pakistan since its birth with an added doze of all kinds of help since 1980 when Russia attacked Afghanistan, but the situation in that part of world has not changed a bit.  Therefore, it is not the financial and military help to Pakistan which is going to change the status quo, rather what is needed is a change in the ideology and mind-set of people in that region especially the attitude of Pakistani military establishment.  As we all know, the civilian elected government does not have much power especially in the Foreign Policy area.  The tune is set by the Pakistani military establishment on which the civilian government dances.  Hence, to expect any drastic step from the civilian government to change the mind-set of people is not going to happen.  It will happen only when the madrasses are shut down in which all the young generation is being brainwashed, and the madrasses will be shut down only when the flow of petro-dollars will be plugged.  If US government really wants to stop the terrorist activities in that region and for that matter all over the world, it should work on a project to stop the flow of petro-dollars which is being funneled through the Muslim so-called charitable institutions to operate these madrasses.