US will find no better ally than Musharraf
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: History will show that America has seldom, if ever, had an ally more willing than Gen Pervez Musharraf to take actions to further US interests, which in no way served its own, according to Michael Scheuer, the former CIA head of the Osama bin Laden unit.
Scheuer told Daily Times that by not abandoning the Cold War-practice of trying to find foreigners to do “America’s dirty work, we have blithely assumed that Musharraf’s Pakistan is an American proxy, with national-security interests that mirror those of the United States. The truth is that virtually none of the many things Musharraf has done to assist the US in Afghanistan has been in Pakistan’s national interest; indeed, by sending the Pakistani Army into the Pashtun regions he brought his country to the brink of civil war.”
He said that in future years, when America’s defeat in Afghanistan was apparent, and if he survived, Gen Musharraf would be able to reflect on his relationship with President Bush and say - as President Lincoln said about Union General McClellan - “Poor George, I did all I could to help him, but he proved unable to do anything to help himself.” He said that the way ahead in Afghanistan and along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ultimately would lead to the defeat of US and NATO forces and the demise of the Karzai government. Scheuer said by failing to accomplish the only mission that had to be accomplished in Afghanistan, the US was now faced with a growing insurgency that probably already outnumbered the combined US-NATO force.
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
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