The war is turning, and it does not make our enemies happy. The surge in Iraq is working, much more rapidly than the MSM would have us believe it has. Pervez Musharraf and the pro-democracy opposition in Pakistan, led by former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, has apparently made a compact for a new democratic government, with President Musharraf giving up his position of head of armed forces and standing in free elections in September. In the meantime, Musharraf has sent 80,000 troops into Waziristan, that Wild-West-like province in the mountainous north of that country, bordering Afghanistan, to end the “look-the-other-way” attitude that has allowed the Taliban and Al Qaeda to remain and conduct operations against Afghanistan. That, and what appears to be a “look-the-other-way attitude that appears to be starting toward a NATO attack on Bin Laden’s camps on the border, is fast setting up the reconstituted Al Qaeda for quick de-construction by the U.S.-led alliance. In Iraq, up-front and back channel diplomacy with Iran appears to be working on stopping the Shiite portion of the insurrection (along with the well-placed bullets of U.S. and Iraqi government troops in the heads of Mahdi Army members). And even North Korea had stopped nuclear production at its main plant in Yongbyon.
You would think that such actions are starting to make for a more peaceful environment for the world, especially America and Europe. Such sounds reasonable, but wrong. Too bad, it should. Unfortunately, we already let “the fox in the barn.” The Al Qaeda cells are here, the WMD is with them, and the cities of America and the West already targeted. The day of reckoning is at hand. Fine, I’m the doom-and-gloomer. I don’t care. Truth is truth.
I’ll tell more about it tomorrow. Sorry. I wish I could talk about more enjoyable things. That can go on another blog I have. But truth must be told, even if sometimes it makes one unpopular, which is something I despise.
—The Old Alcalde—
