Hot Topics October 19, 2012 HNN Hot Topics: Pakistan Commentary: HistoriansFouad Ajami: Pakistan Faces A Reckoning (10-17-12)Juan Cole: Will Pakistan’s Crisis Affect the U.S. in Afghanistan? (1-16-12)Larry P. Goodson: Why Pakistan Will Never Break with its Islamist Allies (5-19-11)Walter Russell Mead: High Noon in Pakistan (5-8-11)Walter Russell Mead: Pakistan's Failed National Strategy (8-17-10) Fouad Ajami: Pakistan's Struggle for Modernity (The country's voters have never endorsed religious extremism) (5-26-09)Mark LeVine: Pakistan's Precarious Balance (3-18-07)Commentary: Media Dilip Hiro: How the U.S. and Pakistan Became the Dysfunctional Nuclear Family of International Relations (10-18-12) Robert D. Kaplan: What's Wrong with Pakistan? Geography. (6-16-12) Dilip Hiro: How Pakistan Makes Washington Pay for the Afghan War (4-17-12)John R. Schmidt: Why Pakistan Supports Radicals (9-19-11)