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Quote by: saif  Have you not watched enough mainstream liberal media to discover that terrorism is all over the world? |
Have you not read the recent National Intelligence Estimates that credit the Iraq disaster for hurting the War on Terror? US Occupied Iraq incubates new terrorists.
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight - washingtonpost.com
As for Pakistan, your analysis ignores Musharraf's role in the current instability. He has alienated the important moderate leaders with attacks on press freedom and the judiciary. Musharaff angered millions of Pakistanis when he suspended the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He's cancelled or postponed promised elections, and reneged on his own pledge to relinquish his military post and rule Pakistan as a purely civilian leader.
Simply throwing money at Pakistan without accountablity or pressure for political reform will probably fail. Musharaff is less popular in Pakistan than Bush is here, if that's even possible. Unless he bolster's his image and popularity, he'll become Pakistan's version of the Shah of Iran--a hated American puppet dictator. No amount of American greenbacks will save him then.
The solution, if one exists at this late date, will involve money and pressure on Musharaff. I see little cause for optimism.
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