Hicksville, May 7 -- The US has an opportunity to take a principled stand and promote transparent diplomacy.

Following the recent Pahalgam attacks, after Gen Asim Munir's provocation, the recent interviews with top Pakistani politicians on Western media platforms have once again exposed the contradictions at the core of this hybrid system of deep state governance. These leaders, serving more as emissaries of the military's agenda than as independent policymakers, are tasked with damage control, public diplomacy, and obfuscation of state complicity in terrorism. But sometimes, in moments of candor or misjudgment, the mask slips.

Having avant-garde admission into the heart of controversy, the Defense Minister of Pakistan told Sky News vet...