MB Civic

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/opinion/23dowd.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fColumnists%2fMaureen%20Dowd&pagewanted=print

In discussing the U.S.’s uneasy alliance with Pakistan, Dowd quotes British historian Niall Ferguson: “Americans who are concerned about a recurrence of 9/11 are worried about the Axis of Evil when the real problem is the Axis of Allies – Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Britain…The terrorists are funded in Suadi Arabia…trained in Pakistan, and they organize their plots quite easily in London.”

As Dowd ultimately points out, “The Paks, as W. and Vice like to call them, are at the heart of the Faustian deal the Bush Administration has made. The justification for invading Iraq was that they couldn’t allow a dictator who might be harboring terrorists to stay in power. But their great ally in the war on terror is General Musharraf, a dictator who appears to be harboring terrorists, including the one we want most.”