The Taliban taking over Pakistan?

From an editorial in the “Washington Post” entitled Sound the Alarm:

THE TALIBAN raised fears in Pakistan last week by briefly seizing new territories near the capital, Islamabad. But in its own way, the Obama administration offered as much reason for panic about the deteriorating situation in that nuclear-armed Muslim country. In the course of just three days, the U.S. secretaries of State and Defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the commanding general of American forces in the Middle East all publicly warned, in blunt and dire language, that Pakistan was facing an existential threat — and that its government and Army were not facing it. “I think that the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban and to the extremists,” said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.