The Dimmer Twins

Everything Cheney and Bush touch with their slippery, selfish fingers and profoundly questionable intellects turns to absolute crap within a year or so.

Pakistan is now the nuclear powered crucible of islamic extremism as the 'Dimmer Twins' policy of undermining, supporting, undermining and now ignoring Musharaff has succeeding in creating chaos where once there was hope.

Bin Laden was never really that bothered about Iraq, he saw it as an opportunity only after the US invaded and then gave only half hearted attention to it, never truly commiting his best people to the cause. The real prize, or rather his determination was to 1) stay alive, which meant complicity from the Pashtun tribes and Pakistans intelligence service, 2) rebuild the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces once the situation around him had stabilized and 3) wreak havoc in the most powerful muslim state in the region, Pakistan. Through intimidation, terror and ultimately US indifference he has managed to achieve all three.

He really is the big boogey man and through this administrations incompetence and arrogance has reestablished himself as such. We have given billions and billions of dollars to Pakistan, most of which remains undocumented, to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces entrenched in the Hindu Kush with what results? The Taliban has not gone away and if anything seems to be controlling large swathes of the country side and some major towns and cities and Al Qaeda, with Pakistani military help no doubt, can operate freely in Rawalpindi, of all places, and assassinate potential heads of state. It is mind blowing.