The Foreign Service Journal, May 2011

M A Y 2 0 1 1 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 9 of post-independence Pakistan stands. By placing himself loftily above the give-and-take of parliamentary democ- racy, Jinnah launched Pakistan on a very different trajectory from that of India, where Jawaharlal Nehru lent his personal prestige to institutionalizing the electoral process and the role of Parliament. The results, as Oldenberg so convincingly demonstrates, still res- onate loudly today. Thank you for continuing to turn out a terrific magazine. Patricia Sharpe FSO, retired Santa Fe, N.M. Potato, Potahto … I enjoyed Virginia Young’s recent Reflections column about her experi- ence in Mexico following the 1984 Grenada invasion (“The Russians Are Coming,” February). As an FSO sta- tioned inMoscow at the time, I’d like to add my own vignette on the subject. After the invasion, it was widely re- ported that U.S. forces had not been equipped with good maps. We were apparently not the only ones with that problem, however. The evening after our invasion, the Soviet evening news anchor intoned a long statement of condemnation. As he read it, the TV screen showed a map of Spain, with an arrow pointing to the province of Granada. Neil Silver FSO, retired McLean, Va. CORRECTION Due to a production error, the March Table of Contents did not credit Joanne Grady Huskey as the author of the feature article titled “Changing Hearts and Minds.” We regret the error. L E T T E R S