Character Judgment
Is there anyone that the Shrubbery has decided is a great individual who hasn’t turned into a total disaster?
During the 2000 Presidential campaign the Shrubbery didn’t know who the president of Pakistan was, and we would all be better off if that were still the case.
Noah Shachtman at Danger Room notes that the military assistance we have been sending to Pakistan isn’t being used for counter-terrorism: Musharraf Uses U.S. Cash to Fight India.
The referenced L.A. Times article is subscription-only, but the fact that he has been buying Harpoon anti-shipping missiles should be a clue, as there is a notable lack of ships of any kind in the Northwest Territories of Pakistan.
The Frontier Corps who actually fight the trouble makers in the tribal areas are lucky to get shoes, much less military equipment, which all goes to the regular Army.
Juan Cole looks at who is being rounded up, and that it isn’t the fundamentalists.
Barnett R. Rubin blogging from Islamabad writes that Musharraf Adopts Bush-Cheney Doctrine of “Lawfare”.
William Shakespeare wrote about “lawfare” in Henry VI Part 2:
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.
The problem with the Shrubbery looking into the eyes of world leaders is that they get to look into his and discover he really is a vacuous twit who can be readily manipulated.
