These American strikes, apparently driven by the Bush administration’s need to boost the Republicans before the upcoming elections, illustrate American highhandedness and shortsightedness as they undermine Pakistani democracy which many see as the only hope for winning this war.
This nascent democracy is immeasurably threatened by the Taliban and Al Qaeda elements on Pakistan’s western borders and within its heartland. Pakistan reluctantly and half-heartedly abandoned its Taliban allies in post-9/11 Afghanistan, as they were successors of the Mujahideen it supported in America’s war against Communist Russia. After September 11, 2001, the American attack on Afghanistan drove Taliban elements across the border into Pakistan’s north-western tribal areas where they have ethnic, linguistic and historic ties. Their Al Qaeda friends, who have developed ties here through matrimony and a common enemy (America), joined them.
http://newageislam.com/was-that-pakistan%E2%80%99s-9/11?/war-on-terror/d/805
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