Comments on: Pakistan Policy Choices Loom http://blogs.cfr.org/campaign2008/2008/02/12/pakistan-policy-choices-loom/ The Candidates and the World Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:20:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Judy http://blogs.cfr.org/campaign2008/2008/02/12/pakistan-policy-choices-loom/#comment-27 Judy Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:13:17 +0000 http://blogs.cfr.org/campaign2008/2008/02/12/pakistan-policy-choices-loom/#comment-27 Pakistan was a terrorist harbor on September 10, 2001, most especially it's military of which Musharraf is a part. If GWB wanted to invade something, it should have been Pakistan and Afghanistan; one can't help but wonder whether that would have upset some sort of oil pipeline scheming/planning/debate taking place in the region post-collapse of the Soviet Union. Unocal, for one, admits dealing with the Taliban in the mid-90s in a cold-eyed corporate way, and to date, the oil reserves in all of the "stans" remain pretty much untapped. So, now recently, we have had the silly spectacle of GWB advising PM to change his outfit! Or maybe that was a good idea: that's what GWB did on the aircraft carrier. But, big difference: Musharraf's new costume had been symbolically stripped of the protective codpiece which was so effectively implied in GWB's pilot garb; so Musharraf had better be ready for some defensive moves. Ouch. Pakistan was a terrorist harbor on September 10, 2001, most especially it’s military of which Musharraf is a part. If GWB wanted to invade something, it should have been Pakistan and Afghanistan; one can’t help but wonder whether that would have upset some sort of oil pipeline scheming/planning/debate taking place in the region post-collapse of the Soviet Union. Unocal, for one, admits dealing with the Taliban in the mid-90s in a cold-eyed corporate way, and to date, the oil reserves in all of the “stans” remain pretty much untapped.

So, now recently, we have had the silly spectacle of GWB advising PM to change his outfit! Or maybe that was a good idea: that’s what GWB did on the aircraft carrier. But, big difference: Musharraf’s new costume had been symbolically stripped of the protective codpiece which was so effectively implied in GWB’s pilot garb; so Musharraf had better be ready for some defensive moves. Ouch.

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