August 03, 2007
"Failure"
The Pakistani Minister of Information just told the BBC that the upsurge of Taliban-style activity in the tribal regions of Pakistan was due to the "failure" — his word — of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
I offer this not, as the lawyers say, for the truth of the assertion — on average there's probably a negative correlation between what Musharraf's mouthpiece says and the truth — but for Musharraf's willingness to sell his friend Mr. Bush down the river. I hope some enterprising reporter asks Tony Snow whether the President agrees with the Prime Minister's assessment.
Bush's cynical decision to adopt Musharraf as "our sonufabitch" is looking worse and worse, and Obama's announced willingness to back the return of Pakistan to democratic (or at least civilian) rule is looking better and better.
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