Monday, April 20, 2009

Sleepwalking To Disaster -- A Commentary

However, we must also accept the fact that we are where we are because the army refused to fight the Taliban in Swat. The government had few options due to this lack of military resolve. - APP/File photo

From Dawn:

WHEN faced with a frightening civil war and reeling from repeated blows from a ruthless and determined foe, how does our government react? It puts the country’s clocks forward by an hour. I suppose this is one of the few things it can do to show it exists at all.

The rest of us can be excused for doubting the presence of an administration, given the slide and drift we have been seeing over the last year. As the Taliban have made rapid inroads, and now strut about with greater impunity — to say nothing of immunity — than ever before, it has been painful to watch how ineffective the PPP-led coalition has been.

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