Pakistani mourners pray during the funeral of a student following an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar, on Dec. 16, 2014.
After almost 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush told world leaders that they were either with or against terrorists.
Pakistan, a country riven by competing impulses in a violent corner of the globe, has remained a bit of both. The storming of a school in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar yesterday, in which Taliban gunmen murdered 141 people, including 132 children, made clear the high price of that bargain to the country itself.