Pakistan

There was the Pakistani report two days ago that Bush would press Pakistani PM on the ISI.

Today we get a NYTimes report that Stephen Kappes, the second in command at the CIA, made a similar presentation to the Pakistanis a month ago.

So, what do I make of this?

Pakistan's government yesterday abruptly reversed an order issued on Saturday placing the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency under the control of the -interior ministry.

I don't know enough about Pakistani politics, but the US's main effort right now seems to be to get the Pakistani government to seize control of and clean out the ISI, so what does it say that the groundbreaking effort to shift the ISI's chain of command was publicly revoked after just one day?

(And I don't think it's coincidental that the day after this initiative was initially announced, violence in the Swat Valley ticked up.)