- At a "dinner party shortly after 9/11 in Islamabad...where many of the Pakistani guests were active or retired generals...The attacks in New York and Washington, one man said, had 'taught the Americans a lesson.' Another officer's wife drew murmurs of assent when she said, 'America had it coming.'" http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/weekinreview/08burnsweb.html?pagewanted=all 3 comments politics