March 1, 2004 ☼ Foreign Affairs
Seymour Hersh’s article in the New Yorker is flavour of the day today. He writes that the US has made a deal with Musharraf to go easy on the AQ Khan imbroglio in return for help in catching Bin Laden. The Acorn pointed this out a month ago. Looks like the United States government had to renegotiate this new Faustian bargain since the earlier one (remember 9/11 and the “with us or with the terrorists” phone call) has become victim to Musharraf’s expert manoeuvre’s. Now that the nuclear black-marketers have been excused and Musharraf exonerated, he is bound to create a new crisis to delay catching bin Laden. But this is election year, and electoral calculations may get the better of the General this time round.{|<} This is an archived blog post from The Acorn.
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