I was doing my usual news roundup this morning when I ran across this article, which had this graf:

An indication of how things have slipped in the region is news that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has openly called for a truce with Taliban leader Mullah Omar. This was not how events were supposed to play out.

The article is primarily about how the U.S. is finally figuring out that Pakistan is not necessarily our friend, and that al Qaeda and the Taliban are far from defeated. I've always thought that Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf has played the U.S. as effectively as Chalabi conned us in Iraq. Here we are years away from 9/11 and Osama bin Laden is still free (probably protected by the Pakistani army), the Taliban is still active, the mayor of Kabul Afghan President Hamid Karzai is negotiating with Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and the U.S Constitution is gutted.

The Bush administration is the penultimate sucker when it comes to international affairs. Dealing with these snakes is not quite as easy as manipulating Barbara Bush, aka mommie, to come forth with a few bucks for the movie. The whole "war on terra" has been a total and complete joke with the U.S. not safer than before 911. There's been no need for any further attack in the U.S. because we've been doing a fine job of imploding on our own.

Prediction. If a Democrat is elected President, or if the Democrats get control somewhere in Congress and Bush gets in trouble, then we'll have another terrorist attack.

Oh, btw, this article was not in any U.S. newspaper