Let me get this straight...

By Carl

Mind you, this interview was conducted today...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States has contributed to instability in Pakistan by not fully supporting President Pervez Musharraf as the best bulwark against Islamic fundamentalists, former U.N. envoy John Bolton said on Friday.

Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2005-06, told a news conference at U.N. headquarters army chief Musharraf was the best hope for keeping Pakistan's nuclear weapons out of the hands of radicals.

The former diplomat, who quit his U.N. job last December after failing to win Senate confirmation and now works at a conservative Washington think tank, urged the administration to drop its focus on elections in Pakistan and "get a grip."

Now, granted, the shit has hit the fan, Pakistan has nukes, and gee, guess what? Al Qaeda is within a hair of getting them for itself now!

But you know, if we had realized what a shit we had as our "ally" in the first place, and what a horribly abstruse excuse for a "democracy" he had installed in Pakistan, we might have solved an awful lot of our problems by removing him then and instituting what the Pakistani people wanted: a moderate democratically elected government, backed by their military bolstered (and overseen) by ours!

But nooooooooooooooooooooo! Instead we went on a fool's errand for a Pyrrhic victory over a tin-plated despot who was of no use or harm to anyone!

Thanks, John, how about a nice hot cup of Shut The Fuck Up for ya?