I have to say that worrying about Jane Hamsher’s phone and the WiFi in the Media room at the Libby Trial was a lot more satisfying than watching the news tonight. Cheney went to Pakistan today to chide Pakistan for not being tough enough on al Qaeda! Pakistan? We’ve been ignoring al Qaeda for four years [that’s right – in three weeks it will be four years] off chasing our tails in Iraq, and Cheney’s bitching at Pakistan? Bin Laden was last seen when he escaped in Tora Bora. It’s on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now, he’s apparently setting up training camps in Waziristan. Waziristan is on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The camp area is maybe a hundred or so miles from his old camps in Afghanistan.
That we’re fighting an absurd, unprovoked war in Iraq is one thing. That we’re fighting an absurd, unprovoked war in Iraq when we have another actual real war to fight with al Qaeda is another. That we’re fighting an absurd, counterproductive unprovoked war in Iraq when we have another actual real war to fight with al Qaeda in Wazirstan, and we’re trying to get Pakistan to fight it for us is beyond unimaginable. There are a mounting number of reasons to send the Bush Administrationin to time-out, but practically speaking, this is the biggest. They can’t read maps!
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