Missing the forest for the trees: Don't shoot the messenger
By Shandana Minhas
Sunday, September 21, 2008
In short, with the exception of a country or two (ok three, or four, or twenty, you know who you are!), immediately subsequent to the escalation of incursions there was widespread agreement with the views expressed by former CIA field officer Robert Baer in an excellent article for Time when he wrote "But the fact remains that American forces have and are violating Pakistani sovereignty…You have to wonder whether the Bush administration understands what it is getting into. In case anyone has forgotten, Pakistan has a hundred plus nuclear weapons. It's a country on the edge of civil war. Its political leadership is bitterly divided. In other words, it's the perfect recipe for a catastrophe…All of which begs the question, is it worth the ghost hunt we've been on since September 11?... Before it is too late, someone needs to sit the President down and give him the bad news that Pakistan is a bridge too far in the "war on terror."
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