Notorious Dictator Brands Brown Soft On Terrorism

Posted on January 29, 2008
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Just as we thought that everything was going well with what is not now called The War On Terror, but something more user-friendly like naughtiness, and we end up being told that New Britain under Gordon Brown’s clattery old New Labour is too soft on terror.

You just can’t do anything right, can you?

Just as Jacqui Smith was hoping to make it law that anyone could be locked up forever without trial, we get this broadside from the president of Pakistan, according to The Guardian:

Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, claimed yesterday that Britain lacked a long-term counter-terrorist strategy and argued that Islamist extremism was a home-grown problem for Britain rather than his country’s responsibility. […]

“We have adopted a five-point strategy. You need to adopt a similar strategy to curb this kind of tendency in youngsters, who tend to become terrorists, because merely getting hold of them and punishing them legally does not solve the problem or get to the root of the problem,” he said.

Well, he has a point. Nobody could argue that the rule of law should stand in the way of The War On Terror. That’s why we have Guantanamo and George Bush, after all.

Probably better to follow Jacqui Smith’s lead and create a society where everyone can end up in jail on the basis of rumours and lies with no hope of release. Cut out the middle man of legal due process.

Meanwhile, The Independent has this:

Yesterday, the former cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan, was briefly reunited with his ex-wife, Jemima Khan, as they joined demonstrators outside Downing Street demanding Mr Musharraf’s resignation. “The British and American governments have swallowed this line by Musharraf that he is this bastion against fundamentalism, extremism and terrorism and if something were to happen to him the country would be swamped by extremists and terrorists,” said Mr Khan. “This assumption … is deeply flawed.”

So, does that mean we do have to be tougher in The War On Terror or that we should ignore some petty dictator? (Obviously, that would not include the petty dictators of the president whose brain is missing and the prime minister with the reputedly big brain).

BBC News sums things up:

Describing his current European visit as a “charm offensive”, President Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan was the victim of misunderstandings, misperceptions and distortions and that he was here to clarify them.

Er, OK.

So, expect the UK state police to be rounding up people off the street at random and putting them on extraordinary rendition flights and for the government to say that these are just holidays before the terrorists are deported.

After all, you can never do too much in The War On Terror.

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