We're With You, Pakistan

Irony dies when a bomb in a car kills 23 Lahore shoppers and wounds over 300.  This constant war will not go on forever, and those who died were just trying to live like I do, in an urban milieu where men and women go outside and are not hidden away, go openly to a market, converse without fear.  We are with you, Pakistan, fighting for the rule of law and the attempt at intellectual mastery of our problems, the attempt to maintain equal rights for all citizens, the respect for religious pluralism, your court system, your people not ready to give in and permit the rule of the clerisy and the armed young men in their thrall.  You are on the front lines.  We are wounded with you.