Posted on 12/01/2004 1:44:04 PM PST by Willie Green
WASHINGTON -- "The leadership vacuum created by the sad demise of (Palestinian) President (Yasser) Arafat can only be filled by Osama bin Laden and (Taliban leader) Mullah (Mohammad) Omar, the real leaders that are the only dedicated individuals with the mass support of the Muslim world," said this front-page statement in Pakistan's mass circulation, Urdu-language newspaper Nawa-e-Waqt.
The author was none other than Gen. Hamid Gul, the notorious former head of Pakistan's intelligence service (ISI), perennial agitproper and America-hater, who is "strategic adviser" to the six-party coalition of politico-religious extremists known as MMA. In a subsequent interview in the same newspaper (Nov. 19), Gul flayed U.S. foreign policy now in the hands of "warrior princess" Condi Rice. "The U.S.," he said, "has created the dilemma of the socio-political and economic collapse in Pakistan. Now with Rice's appointment, the U.S.will influence and control Pakistan's nuclear program, which is our only remaining strength, through which the right nuclear balance in the region (with India) is maintained."
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Or, we could always charter the same type of helicopter that his ideological inspiration, Zia ul-Huq, was flying in when he so tragically expired.
He's General Musharref's problem, I suppose, not ours, for the moment at least. Musharref elected to remove him from office but let him loose. I hope he knows what he's doing.
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As a military commander, political leader and diplomat.
At times, he reminds me of nothing so much as a bad, East Indian version of Barney Fife, who is basically a marked man, waiting to be done in by the Islamic (Sunni) fanatics.
Then, he'll do something that leads me to completely change my opinion of the man and believe that he's a dynamic, historic figure, someone akin to Attaturk, Sadat or Michael Collins.
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