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The Bush administration has announced that their “policies” against terror cells in northwest Pakistan have failed. The strategy involved leaving them alone and seeing what happened. Actually, the administration has had little choice because of the Iraqi diversion away from Afghanistan and political pressure on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf (who last year had a lovely book tour here in the US and appeared on The Daily Show with John Stewart).

Shockingly, Pakistani presidents’ book tours in the US don’t go over too well with radical Muslim factions. But to Pervez’s credit he knew there was little choice but to broker a “deal” between the US, the government of Pakistan and Al Qaeda in Pakistan: It’s called the “Leave Us the Fuck Alone” policy.

Surprisingly, the biggest winner of this policy has been Al Qaeda in Pakistan who has managed some much needed R&R for jihad against all infidels (especially those who love freedom).

And Bush’s strategy of fighting them over there so we don’t fight them here has worked to a degree. We are fighting lots of people “over there” and some are even members of Al Qaeda. Of course, for every member of Al Qaeda we kill, 2 more are born. This has all been a very intriguing piece of foreign policy.

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