Look! Grumpy, one of the Seven Dwarfs, is ALIVE…

…and well, in Pakistan. Well, no. Actually, this bearded little cretin is the leader of a militant network of tribal Pakistani Islamists but he could be cast in “Grumpy and Chucky Team Up”.

“The C.I.A. has just confronted Pakistan’s most senior officials with new information about ties between their country’s powerful spy service and militants operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas.”

“The C.I.A. assessment specifically points to links between members of the spy service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, and the militant network led by Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, (the red-bearded, hunkered-down dwarf pictured above) which American officials believe maintains close ties to senior figures of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas.”

The C.I.A. has depended heavily on the ISI, the Pakistani spy service, for information about militants in Pakistan, while the ISI has been misleading us and supporting al Qaeda and the Taliban ever since the 9/11 attack. Incredibly, the C.I.A. and the Bush administration have generally sought to avoid criticism of Pakistan, which they regard as a crucial ally in the fight against terrorism, when it is and has been perfectly clear all along that Pakistan, an Islamic and militant little country with nukes, is our enemy and will stay our enemy.

I think the reason for the “crucial ally” story is exactly because Pakistan has those nukes. They’ve repeatedly refused to reveal the whereabouts of their stockpile of A-Bombs to us. What does that tell you? It tells me that they may just plan on using them against us some day and don’t want us to eradicate them. Our policy has been to claim Pakistan as an ally, publicly, while maintaining a semi-hostile posture toward its leaders diplomatically, in an effort to keep them de-fused.

 Remember that it was Pakistans top governmental nuclear chief who sold A-Bomb blueprints and materials to other insane Islamist nations, including Iran, while their Pres. Musharraf looked blithely on. As soon as the C.I.A. finds someone to bribe who will reveal where the nukes are hidden, Pakistans fangs will be pulled. Clearly we don’t know yet or we wouldn’t still be playing pattycake with them.

Pakistan is like Iran, a little dwarf of a country run by a pack of self-serving homicidal liars. We need to locate those nukes before they use them or al Qaeda and the Taliban get to them, and take them out of the equation.