Thursday, December 11, 2008

Patrick French gets it!

In the NYT


America’s so-called war on terror has been, in many respects, a catastrophe.....links between the military, the intelligence services and the jihadis have remained intact: Lashkar-e-Taiba is merely one of a number of extremist organizations that continues to function....It does the people of Pakistan no favors for Washington to allow their leaders to continue with the strategy of perpetual diversion, asking India to be patient while denying the true nature of the immediate terrorist threat.....