Asia Times Online :: South Asia news - US to hunt the Taliban inside Pakistan

KARACHI - Since last September, North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan have been pressing Islamabad for the right to conduct extensive hot-pursuit operations into Pakistan to target Taliban and al-Qaeda bases.

According to Asia Times Online contacts, NATO and its US backers have gotten their wish: coalition forces will start hitting targets wherever they might be.

Saudi Arabia is, based on my reading, the bagmen for AQ and Taliban peeps. The Pakis have, for any large number of reasons known mainly to themselves, have been their shelter from the storm, so to speak. If it is indeed true that Musharraf is going to allow NATO to start killing the c—s—ers where they sleep, then…good on him. I believe there are numbers untold of SpecOps types itching to go, and I’m foursquare behind turning them loose.

Of course, it must be said, that if it’s true, it has absolutely nothing to do with Chimpy McBush and his anti-diplomats…it’s just impossible that the Worst President Ever and his Worst Administration Ever could manage something of this nature. It hadda be something else, like Pelosi or Obama — they’re both magical.

You know, there’s not a Powerful Guy on earth I’d like less to be than Pervez Musharraf. How he manages to not just stuff a couple of steamer-trunks full of cash and go sell fish tacos & live bat on the beaches of some quiet coastal town is beyond me.