Pakistan has been playing us for far too long. The US needs to wrap up Iraq over the next year as much as possible and then drop our commando forces between Islamabad and the Pashtun. Then drive those a**holes out of the hills and into southern Afghanistan like clearing deer out of a forest. Then our army regulars should be sitting there waiting to mow them down as they cross. Bin Laden included. If Pakistan doesn’t like it, why don’t we invite our friends from India to accompany us on our next high level trip to Islamabad. As far as the US having more enemies in Pakistan, in all reality, how do you get higher than 100%. The Paki goverment over the past 30 years has been working us by counseling patience while lining their pockets with US Foreign Aid for far too long.
Let’s face it, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the battle field to break the spine of this duplicitous Islamo-facist movement. Until we exert western dominance and break the will of duplicity across the entire arc (cresent if you will), the war will not truly be over. From North India to the Mediterranean, the entire crescent must be freed, cleaned and reconstituted.
We have always known it was at least a 30 year war and until the democrats figure that out, we will be just taking breaks in between time so the enemy can re-fortify. Practical clearheadedness seems to be in short supply among our spoiled Americans. World peace and a Prius for everyone doesn’t just happen...sometimes you have to fight for it...long and hard.
This is probably hard to accept but Bush completely blew it when it came to Pakistan. He placed all his trust on one man - Musharraf and then changed his mind to support “democracy.” He completely ignored the pleas of our ally Karzai to pay heed to Pakistan’s double game. The biggest blunder was to sign off on the 2005-06 “peace deal” that Musharraf made with the terrorists. I remember Bush standing with Musharraf in the White House and saying something like “If my pal Musharraf says that this peace deal will work, I trust him.”
Once Taliban and Al Qaeda got the space to set up hundreds of camps and safe houses, they cannot be uprooted without a massive land and air campaign. For all his toughness, part of Bush’s legacy will be his poor judgment in trusting our Muslim “allies” like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Quite disappointing.
Throw in North Korea, China, and Russia -- and now your talking serious world peace for a long while (assuming all of civilization doesn't get wiped out in the process).