Indeed, follow the money. This IS about Islam, and although its ascendance has been taking place in fits and starts for over thirteen centuries, we live in a time when Islam is resurgent, fueled by oil money (the "Gift of Allah to the Faithful").
In the madrassas, the soldiers and officers for the next Islamic Clone War are being methodically indoctrinated for an inevitable attack on the "unbelievers". As their fellows around the world have amply demonstrated, the traditional Islamic values of murder, rapine and plunder are very much alive. We can expect a particularly nasty World War III since NO weapons and NO targets are off-limits to Islamists. It will be the worst war known humanity has ever seen, and it's coming soon.
While I generally don't consider UPI or any of the major news bureaus to be infallible, they do tend to be pretty careful about their facts. Pakistan is a house built on sand, and I've never considered them to be a reliable U.S. ally. Sacking the former head of the ISI was hardly a housecleaning, and probably a Musharraf canard. His personal support of Islamic terrorism is well documented.
Presumably, U.S. strategists are well aware of what's really going on in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, and are simply dancing the deadly dance that must preceed every major war.
Imal
However, General Pervert Mushroom has been given one last chance. Despite his sidekick Lieutenant General Ahsanul Haq's confabulating with the dirty bomber Jose Padilla (which conversation was intercepted... & the dirty bomber caught !)