Barracking

摘要

The global carnival sparked by Barack Obama's election victory suggests unrealistic faith in his ability to change the way America deals with the world. But in Pakistan people are less drawn to the lofty rhetoric of change than they are repelled by another campaign pledge. Mr Obama has said that when elected he would authorise cross-border operations to "hunt down" Taliban and al-Qaeda militants operating in the tribal areas of Pakistan. But as the drone missile attacks-and attendant civilian deaths-have mounted (see main story), they have fired up both rural radicals and urban, middle-class moderates, whose national pride is wounded.