Hillary Clinton: Corn tastes better in Karachi

You couldn’t get much cornier. There was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telling TV viewers in Pakistan that some of her best friends at Wellesley College were Pakistani, and that she and Bill Clinton had Pakistani friends bring Pakistani food to the White House. “I love the food,’’ she told Pakistan’s Dawn TV before her visit this week to that crucial country. “I wear shalwar kameezes,’’ she confided, alluding to the long, loose tunic that is a traditional Pakistani garment. Hokey as her personal diplomacy may sound, Clinton deserves two cheers for trying to improve America’s low esteem with the Pakistani public. She struck the right note when, during her visit, she expressed solidarity with Pakistanis suffering from terrorist atrocities. If the United States wants to partner up with Pakistan, American leaders must begin by undoing the mistrust inculcated in the population by various anti-American conspiracy peddlers. Clinton gets it.