The recently leaked internal Pakistan government report on the 2011 U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden affirms President Barack Obama’s decision not to alert the Pakistani government before sending in Navy Seals.

The report found “complacency, ignorance, incompetence, irresponsibility and possibly worse at various levels inside and outside the government,” to say nothing of a culture of corruption and indifference to crime.

To have brought such a government into the planning process would have assured mission failure.

The Al-Jazeera news agency acquired the 337-page report and published it on its website this week at aje.me/186WI4S.

In response to the report, Talat Aslam, senior editor of The News in Karachi, told the Christian Science Monitor that it reveals Pakistan to be in “complete shambles.”

“No one,” he said, “comes out completely competent. The military, civilians, revenue department — it is one big bunch of real incompetence.”

The picture of Pakistan that emerges from this internal report is so bleak that the U.S. and countries around the world should immediately renew efforts to contain the damage such a weakly governed nuclear power could do.

But the list of what needs to change in Pakistan is so long that it must be disheartening to even the most optimistic diplomat.

Since the country was formed in 1947 through partition from India, its history has been marked by aggression against India and Kashmir and a series of leaders unable to create permanent stability.

The new report demonstrates that plenty of work will be needed to stabilize that dangerous country and provide the kind of competent government the Pakistani people deserve.