Pakistan Takes the Bush Option

Pakistan’s two days bloodshed on the country’s symbols of government, uncannily resemble the 9/11 bloodshed when America’s symbols of grandeur were targeted. Now that Pakistan is marshalling a force of 30,000 troops to attack South Wazirastan, it is dutifully following the same Bush action-reaction strategy without any thought for its suitability or unsuitability, given the worldwide condemnation of Bush moves on Iraq and Afghanistan. Pakistan is being forced into a civil war that is not of its choosing. Sane elements should force a reconciliatory and dialogue approach that Obama so obsessively recommended and failed to impose.