Benazir; a bad choice of US, is a planned choice

In the hum drum of the fragile situation in Pakistan and finding Musharraf in some shallow waters; Miss Bhutto has started exploiting this and chosen the route of defiance and confrontation with Musharraf.  This exercise may be for warming up her ‘political theatre’ but she has also started maligning and undermining the Army’s old ‘standings’ in the country that people are so used to seeing them there at the helms of affairs as their saviours.

With the changing stance of Miss Bhutto; Islamist and Taliban, since contained by Army in the North-western Mountains are getting wrong signals. She is also instigating the civil society for up rise with aim to create civil unrest. In the absence of Army from the scene that people in Pakistan are so used to it; the monstrous Islamist forces and Taliban, waiting in the wings; are likely to come down from their mountainous dens to spread anarchy and ultimately take over the country. Islamists are very much capable to move the masses in their favour on religious card. Benazir is a corrupt figure and may also not fetch sufficient votes to form a majority government. The entire plan of transition of power is likely to go awry.

Benazir is a poor US choice in Pakistan but probably this may be the ‘Neocons smart plan’ also; to exploit the prevalent mayhem and anarchy in Pakistan and finally move in…(next US move)...with the aim to target the nukes assets of Pakistan. Pakistanis...better watch out.
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Love for all, Hatred for none

112891 by don knutsen on 11/11 at 7:45 am: “....bush is no doubt closely watching Pakistan for tips on what to do when cheney tells him to declare marshall law and suspend the constituion all together...not to mention the election in 2008....”

It only requires a “state of emergency”, don knutsen. That is, a mini martial law will do!?!?

#Quote: “...“President Musharraf, right after the attacks on September the 11th, made a decision, and the decision was to stand with the United States against the extremists inside Pakistan,” Bush told reporters...”

Oops, that is a loaded statement for Bush’s future use, if ever there was. “To stand with the United States… (against the extremists inside Pakistan)” means that Bush is endorsing Musharraf as he might have to resort to an “emergency action” domestically one day himself (soon).

That is reinforced by Bush’s “In other words, he was given an option: Are you with us, or are you not with us? And he made a clear decision to be with us, and he’s acted on that advice.” Whether or not Condi concurred (she is just “a female” in Texan talk) is shown not to matter in the least.

#Quote Washington Post: “...That record, and the counterterror prism of U.S. policymaking since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have led the Bush administration to worry less that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal might be used in a horrific war with India than that it could become a security threat to the U.S. homeland in the event of any theft or diversion to terrorist groups.....

Because the risks are so grave, U.S. intelligence officials have long had contingency plans for intervening to obstruct such a theft in Pakistan, two knowledgeable officials confirmed. The officials would not discuss details of the plans, which are classified, but several former officials said the plans envision efforts to remove a nuclear weapon at imminent risk of falling into terrorists’ hands....

The plans imagine, in the best case, that Pakistani military officials will help the Americans eliminate that threat. But in other scenarios there may be no such help, said Matt Bunn, a nuclear weapons expert and former White House science official in the Clinton administration. “We’re a long way from any scenario of that kind. But the current turmoil highlights the need for doing whatever we can right now to improve cooperation and think hard about what might happen down the road."..."

As the US state department hasn’t been able to do a thing since it shot itself in the foot over Iran, “think(ing) hard about what might happen down the road” is certainly urgent for them as well as a new concept. The US “contingency plans for intervening” could only refer to a pre-emptive strike of one kind or another on Pakistan and Musharraf must really be in trouble now.

All of his senior people wll also realize that and that must be putting significant pressure on the different factions in the military there. Al Qaeada and the Taleban must be dancing with joy at the opportunity of exploiting Bush’s statements internally. No doubt, there will already be some US submarines off the coast......

As much of the USAF has just been grounded with “technical faults”, I guess Bush will coyly leave Iran up to Israel and his new poodle/sucker, Cosy Sarkosy, and that means the Israeli nuclear-armed air force and French nuclear-armed submarines.  How convenient - WW3, here we come!?!?