He also suggested that deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage's recent trip to India and Pakistan may indicate that the U.S. government has learned a lesson. The U.S. is playing a role in the Indo-Pakistani rapprochement now under way, even if the best newspapers and magazines this country has do not cover the story. Judging from the absence of reports on the rapprochement, he expressed concern that the American media have yet to learn the lesson of 9/11.