We're still friends though, right?

Today Reuters is confirming year-old reports that the biggest proliferator of nuclear weapons technology to the worst enemies of the U.S. is our so-called ally Pakistan.

Here's a snippet:

Pakistan: Disgraced Scientist Gave Iran Centrifuges
By Zeeshan Haider

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced Pakistani scientist at the center of a nuclear black market, gave Iran (news - web sites) centrifuges, the Pakistani government said on Thursday (read more).
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I recall "President" Bush saying over and over again that the most important national security challenge of the post 9/11-era is keeping the world's most dangerous weapons out of the hands of the world's most dangerous regimes. If that's the standard, this administration has failed miserably. Democracy in Iraq is a truly wonderful thing, but by getting involved there, we've committed the bulk of the U.S. military to the wrong problem. We deemed Iraq the easiest country to "take care of," so we did. It's as if the Iraq war is a large scale theatrical production of this stupid old joke:

A woman sees a man searching the sidewalk underneath a streetlamp.
"What are you looking for," she asks.
"I'm looking for my wallet," he says, and gesturing towards the adjacent dark alley.
"Where exactly did you lose the keys?"
"Over there in the alley."
"Why are you looking over here?"
"The light's better."
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For a little background on this story, check out this story I wrote about a year ago.