Any bureaucratic organization is composed of many individuals with their own agendas. Individuals hijack the organization and make it perform to their agenda insofar as their personal power allows. The larger the organization the more this is true. Hence the danger of big government with powerful organizations like the EPA and ATF. On the much smaller scale this is the office worker who uses the printer and copier to make newsletters for his car club or golf team.
A large organization can be modeled as a blanket thrown over the individuals. The individuals perform the movements they want and occasionally, by accident, the blanket appears to move in a given direction. Perhaps it is even the direction that the leader said they should move. Observers then say that the organization is doing (fill-in-the-blank.) But observers are wrong. Observers are seeing the cumulative Brownian motion of individual agendas.
The United States has bought-off the Pakistani leaders. But the smaller individuals are still pursuing their agendas. They are the Valarie Plame’s, the CIA employee who sabotaged GWB’s effort to prove Saddam Hussein had obtained yellow cake.
Some organizations have discipline, coherence and uniformity (non-diversity) and can perform to the leader’s agenda. But the more diverse the organization the more the individual agendas count towards sabotaging the leader’s instructions. Pakistan’s government is almost in chaos. For all intents the Pakistani hold and ability to lead is nonexistent. We can’t bribe them anymore and expect to buy safety from the individual agendas. Time to pull out and support India as a counterweight to the Pakistani nukes.
One of Bush’s biggest mistakes was to not purge all of Klintoon’s cronies.... they cost us many lives.