Today I interviewed Elan Journo, a senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. The major topic we discussed was Pakistan and the sharia law that is now in effect in the tribal belt of the country. You can watch the interview here.An article written by Journo in 2007 suggests that that U.S. has been on the path of appeasement long before President Obama. Here is an excerpt of Journo's piece which was published in Capitalism Magazine:
Why is Washington so unprepared to deal with this danger to U.S. security? The answer lies in how we embraced Pakistan as an ally.Click here to read it all.
Pakistan was an improbable ally. In the 1990s its Inter-Services Intelligence agency had helped bring the Taliban to power; Gen. Musharraf's regime, which began in 1999, formally endorsed the Taliban regime; and many in Pakistan support the cause of jihad (taking to the streets to celebrate 9/11). But after 9/11 the Bush administration asserted that we needed Pakistan as an ally, and that the alternatives to Gen. Musharraf's military dictatorship were far worse...
