| The Bush administration hasn't captured Osama Bin Laden for two reasons. On the smaller scale, it has "outsourced" the job to Pervez Musharraf and his beneficiaries of his military coup in Pakistan, and on the larger scale, it relies on this unlikely ally because Bin Laden provides Bush and the Republicans with a boogie-man to trot out during election cycles. |
| The bottom line is that we can't capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan because the populations there secretly (or not so secretly) support him. He is popular there because he has become the symbol of resistance to American and western exploitation of the Arab world and the larger third world in general. This includes clumsy attempts to kill Bin Laden and his henchmen that have resulted instead in the mass murder of thousands of innocent Arab men, women and children.
Pakistan's prime minister came to the White House this week and pretended that the people of Pakistan highly value their country's current close military relationship with the United States. President Bush reciprocated by pretending in his public comments that the American airstrikes that killed 18 Pakistani civilians earlier this month were not Topic A in that relationship. Even diplomacy requires more direct talk than this. Source: "Straight Talk Needed on Pakistan" - NY Times - January 28, 2006 |
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