Bringing down the wrath of Dubya upon your heads

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/04/pakistan_pushes_peac.php

'One day after the Pakistani government signed a peace accordwith a violent Pakistani outfit operating in the Malakand Division in the Northwest Frontier Province, the government said future deals are currently in the works.'

I consider this news in the context of these declarations. As I pointed out before, I don't suppose Musharraf was in love with United States and its interests when he plumped to join President Bush in the War on Islamism. He signed up because he had the equivalent of a shotgun up his tailpipe. That shotgun has not gone away.

Only dreamy dreamland Islamist politicians in Pakistan could be so unworldly they fail to understand the basic outlines of their current situation. Pakistan is currently hosting the Taleban, Al Qaeda, remants of many of the terrorist outfits that have been fighting for thirty years in Kashmir and hundreds of newly sprung little Islamist outfits populated by the witless thugs being pumped out of Pakistans thousands of Madrassas. Up in the mountains, and equipped with ancient AK-47's, these people do not necessarily pose any threat to mainland USA or Europe. They do, however, comprise a vast pool of possible terrorist operatives with a proven track-record of suicidal tendencies. And unless we lock Pakistan and throw away the key, given how small the world is and how easy it is to get from Karachi or Islamabad to Los Angeles or London, thats a serious problem.

You don't just get to walk away from that with some airy fairy bullshit about 'following different agendas of different countries'. Until you DEAL with the problem, you don't have any choice. Musharraf is a realist and made a judgement that he would get far more from cooperating with the US than siding with the head-chopper guys. He paid a very high personal price for that cooperation (how many assasination attempts has he survived?), but crucially his countrymen gained a great bargain. If the new government want to go it alone the probable outcome will be this: a war between the worlds only hyperpower and a country that can't keep the lights on all day; hundreds of thousands of dead Pakistanis; victory certain for the US; utter humiliation AGAIN for a muslim 'power'. That what you want guys? Keep up the peace talks with Americas enemies then...