US-Pakistan relations troubled

Thu, May 5th 2011, 11:00 PM

WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden's death has Congress pointing fingers at Pakistan and many in the Obama administration expressing thinly veiled exasperation. But it probably will not mean the breakup of a marriage of convenience that is maddening to both the U.S and nuclear-armed Pakistan. The alternative would be worse.

"It is not always an easy relationship," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged Thursday, but it is useful for both countries. "We are going to continue to cooperate between our governments, our militaries, our law enforcement agencies," she said.

Yet the commando raid Monday on bin Laden's comfortable house deep inside Pakistan exposes a ...

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