Then U. S. Ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson, alarmed by her interaction with trainees  at Pakistan's National Defense University (NDU), where, after addressing them, she had  "received astonishingly naive and biased questions about America," wrote a 5/12/2008 memo "LIFE AT NDU: TRAINING PAKISTAN'S NEXT GENERATION OF MILITARY LEADERS," now published as Wikileaks #153436 by the Pakistani newspaper Dawn.  The memo concludes with Ambassador Patterson's concern that,The elite of this crop of colonels and brigadiers are receiving biased NDU training with no chance to hear alternative views of the U.S.The cable highlights these salient details provided by a US army officer, Col Michael Schleicher, who attended a course at Pakistan's NDU:Students are first instructed on classic nation state development, which includes use of Islamic texts.During his professional and personal interactions with the students, Col. Schleicher estimated that approximately a...(Read Full Post)