In Pakistan, America is held responsible for the local reaction to the Danish cartoons. And our odious import duties on discount brassieres are adding fuel to the tire fires.

"Pakistan didn't used to be like this. All this extremism that you see here now is because of Afghanistan."

He meant the Afghanistan war that started in 1979, not the one that came after Sept. 11.

"Textile trade, not F-16's, is the only thing the US should do if at all US wanted to mellow extremism here."

Pakistani factories make everything from bras to shirts and sheets for companies like Wal-Mart, Polo Ralph Lauren and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.