About Time?

Josh Marshall reports from the Asia Times:
Asia Times: "With a truce between the Pakistani Taliban and Islamabad now in place, the Pakistani government is in effect reverting to its pre-September 11, 2001, position in which it closed its eyes to militant groups allied with al-Qaeda and clearly sided with the Taliban in Afghanistan. While the truce has generated much attention, a more significant development is an underhand deal between pro-al-Qaeda elements and Pakistan in which key al-Qaeda figures will either not be arrested or those already in custody will be set free."

Some are speculating that this is a smoke screen for a hot-pursuit deal that allows the US to snatch and grab bin Laden. Good politics and good policy?

A more pessimistic view is that it's one more way we are getting sand kicked in our eyes.

About forty-five days from now would be a good time for Bush to produce this rabbit. I guess we shall see which it will be.

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