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The Pakistani army’s belated assault this week on Taliban insurgents in Buner district—just 60 miles from the capital, Islamabad—is more than merely welcome. If it reflects a new seriousness about the country’s internal security, a new determination to confront and crush Islamist militants, then it could mark one of the most significant and promising developments in Pakistan’s 62-year history.

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From the beginning of the partition from India in 1947, Pakistan’s leaders played the religion card to contrive a sense of national identity and arouse the population’s loyalty. Most Pakistanis were Muslim; most Indians were Hindu; so claims of vast distinctions between the two nations were built on long-believed distinctions between the two religions. Religious extremism was encouraged in the interest of national chauvinism. The raging territorial dispute over Kashmir only whipped up this fervor, which was egged on further by the fact that, in the early years Replica Burberry Watches, India never really accepted the partition—or Pakistan’s status as a nation-state. The awareness that India was far stronger than Pakistan, economically and militarily, turned this psycho-political drama into a tangible security threat.

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The evidence is overwhelming. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has spent about $10 billion on assistance to Pakistan, mainly military assistance, on the assumption that it would be used to stamp out Taliban insurgents crossing border from Pakistan to Afghanistan. However, in recent testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, David Kilcullen—author of The Accidental Guerrilla and a top counterinsurgency adviser to several U.S. officers and officials—listed more than 20 instances when the Pakistani military or government has tolerated or overtly aided the Taliban and other terrorists.

The most notorious instance took place in February of this year, when the government struck a deal with Islamists in the Swat Valley, letting them set up an enclave of sharia law in exchange for an end to the fighting that had long persisted in the area. Officials justified the move as a way of co-opting the Taliban. However, many Pakistani citizens were outraged, seeing the move as surrender, the sign of a breakdown in the central government’s authority.

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3:10 to Yuma (Lionsgate). Critics like this Western, in part because it feels familiar—it remakes the 1957 classic of the same name and is steeped in the conventions of the genre, though it’s more expressive and violent than the original. In The New Yorker, David Denby writes, “I found myself settling into its stern logic and its physical splendor with a grateful sigh.” At the same time, the new film is too elaborate for some: The Village Voice’s J. Hoberman sighs, “What’s lost in [director James] Mangold’s rough-hewn exercise in barroom-brawl baroque is the original one-on-one.” As the New York Times explains in a review of a new special-edition DVD, the original film was “a psychological drama, as intense as a Bergman marital duel, but played out in a forceful exchange of looks and gestures.” In any case Seiko Replica Watches, reviewers think performances are fine—especially Russell Crowe as the brilliant psychopath at the center of the movie and Peter Fonda as a grizzled bounty hunter. (Buy tickets to 3:10 to Yuma. Buy the original 1957 version on DVD.)— Sept. 7

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Shoot ‘Em Up (New Line). Make no mistake: This is “a bloody, trashy, volcanically depraved action movie” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) that stone-facedly satirizes its genre by sheer—literal—overkill. If you like that sort of thing (and Gleiberman does), then you’ll join the critics giving it hearty Replica Maurice Lacroix Watches, if slightly apologetic, endorsements. The Chicago Sun-Times’ Roger Ebert explains his thumbs-up: “I may disapprove of a movie for going too far, and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes much, much farther than merely too far.” But Shoot ‘Em Up is not a Tarantino picture, and absent a cunning script or dazzling filmmaking, even stars Clive Owen and Paul Giamatti can do little to soften up detractors. The other side of the aisle hates the movie—and nobody more than the New York Times’ A.O. Scott, who calls it “a worthless piece of garbage.” (Buy tickets to Shoot ‘Em Up.)— Sept. 7

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