I am not quite sure that the average citizen understands just how incredibly bad the situation is, in Pakistan. For a very long time, I have thought that Pakistan is the most dangerous place in the world (along with Russia)
This thought was just by a simple line extension - Any country whose government the US Government supports (in the hope that the issue just slinks away) tends to become a trouble center. Iran (Shah of Iran), Afghanistan (the US supported the Taliban against the Russians - featured in the movie "Charlie Wilson's War"), Iraq (who do you think armed Saddam in his far against the Kurds?), Cuba and a variety of other banana republics.
Benazir Bhutto was incredibly flawed, but her assasination clearly shows the double game that Musharaff has been playing - Pandering to the US, pandering to the Mullahs. However, his time is limited. Pakistan is soon going to go the way of Palestine, with a democratically elected extremist government.
And what does George Bush do?
- Looks Putin in the eye and declares that he is a "good guy".
- Gives Pakistan $10 Billion to fight against the Taliban - USA, please understand that unless you fight against the enemy yourself, there is no point - No more proxy wars please. Prediction: Hamid Karzai's Northern Alliance is going to be the terrorists of 10 years later
- Puts a 25 Million dollar bounty on Osama's head - Are you kidding me! Is the US Intelligence so dumb that they would believe that someone would give away Osama's location for money - They would be dead in a few days
The root problem is that the US apparently does not have access to enough people who can think like Middle Easterners/Asians. Unless the US stops interacting with them expecting that they will want the same thing as Americans, the same problems are going to exist - Forever.
