Analysis: With us or against us? A decade on, Pakistan wavering
September 9, 2011 | Filed under: News | Posted by:
(Reuters) – While the ruins of New York’s World Trade Center were still smouldering in late September 2001, President George W. Bush put nations around the globe on notice: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” It was an ultimatum that Pakistan’s then-president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, felt acutely as Washington readied for war against the Taliban regime next door in Afghanistan. In his memoirs, he recalls being told by the Americans that “if we chose the terrorists, then we should be prepared to be bombed back to the Stone Age.” Musharraf ditched the Taliban and threw Pakistan’s lot in with the United States, making it a strategic ally in the “global war on terror,”…
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