Its The Year of the Mouse
Al-Qaeda to the rescue for Bush’s legacy
By M K BhadrakumarThe Cassandra-like foretelling by American opinion makers almost uniformly makes out that Pakistan may not survive. True, it is hard to be optimistic. Setting right these disjointed times is way past the capacity of the present US administration.
The only silver lining seems to be that in an year’s time another team will move into the White House and a clean break becomes possible. Even ardent specialists in the US security community admit as much. A commentator for Stratfor, a think-tank closely linked to the security establishment, says, “In this endgame, all that the Americans want is the status quo in Pakistan. It is all they can get. And given the way US luck is running, they might not even get that.”
Thanks to George Bush one of his legacies will be Al-Qeada’s continued existence and his inept pronouncements that they are Super Terrorists responsible for all things evil.