I guess they’re not with us but President Bush seems to think the new government of Pakistan isn’t against us either. If they won’t kill Bin Ladin or allow us to do it, aren’t they doing the same thing the Taliban did which led to us invading Afghanistan?

The N.T.A. has the money quote from the USA Today article:

Pakistan’s top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaeda leader.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said his nation’s new government has ruled out such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.

“Our government’s policy is that our troops, paramilitary forces and our regular forces are deployed in sufficient numbers. They are capable of taking action there. And any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” he said Saturday. “People will not accept it. Questions of sovereignty come in.”

Bin Laden is believed to be hiding somewhere along the rugged and lawless Afghan-Pakistan border region.

Funny, the Al-Qaeda backed and Pakistan allied Taliban haven’t been respecting Afghanistan’s sovereignty of late and Pakistani immigrants to the United Kingdom, many of whom were radicalized in Taliban sympathetic Mosques, are noted for stunning lack of respect for the sovereignty and dignity of Britain.

Pakistan is arguing that we allow them to continue to export Islamic terrorism and wait for them to do what we all know they won’t, which is stop the Taliban and Al-Qaeda from launching attacks on the West and our allies. Worse they’re demanding the world respect their sovereignty when while they send militants to Britain and the U.S. who don’t respect ours.

Relying on friends like Pakistan, our efforts to defend America from another terrorist attack are doomed to failure.