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Lexicon Update: It's "PakAf" Now?

Al Kamen hears that's what Richard Holbrooke now calls it. The verbiage is trivial, of course, but represents an important substantive point: that nuclear-armed Pakistan is actually more important to us than the country where we have 60,000-plus troops. I've heard that the modified phrase has currency with at least one other very senior administration official.