Obama Administration Seeks To Validate Islamist-linked Leader In Pakistan, The U.S. Now Wants To Work With bin Laden Ally

Here we go folks, the Obama administration, that bulwark of foreign policy expertise is now in the process of meddling in Pakistan and their brilliant conclusion is to engage a former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, into the mix because of his "ties" to islamists in Pakistan - the Obamaites have apparently decided that the only way to quell the threats of the Taliban and al Qaeda in the country is to work with a power broker, an opposition leader to the current government, who will seek to give in to the terrorists demands. The story on this latest round of keystone cop activity is here at Breitbart, but I also want to direct you to some background on this Sharif, some history on the kind of man that Obama wants to now form an alliance - this background is here.

Some excerpts from the Breitbart article:

The administration of US President Barack Obama is reaching out to former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the chief rival of President Asif Ali Zardari, in hopes to find a way to strengthen the country's government, The New York Times reported.
Sharif, who served as Pakistan's prime minister twice during the 1990s, represents the Pakistan Muslim League-N.
Citing unnamed administration officials, the newspaper said on its website that because of his ties to Islamists, the US government has long held Sharif at arm?s length.

But now some Obama administration officials say those ties could be useful in helping Zardari?s government to confront the challenge from Taliban insurgents, the report said.

Okay, so that is the reasoning of the Obama administration...to back Sharif and empower him to use his ties to the terroristic islamists in Pakistan to quell the violence. Let's look at a bit about this man, Nawaz Sharif, from the other article...just what can we expect from aligning ourselves with this man?:

Spring 1989: ISI and Bin Laden Allegedly Plot to Kill Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

Hamid Gul, Nawaz Sharif, and Osama bin Laden conspire to assassinate Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Husein Haqqani, a Pakistani journalist who claims to have been involved in the plot, will later say that ISI Director Hamid Gul contacted Osama bin Laden, who was then known to provide financial support to Afghan mujaheddin, to pay for a coup/assassination of Bhutto. Gul also brings Nawaz Sharif, then the governor of Punjab province and a rival of Bhutto, into the plot. Bin Laden agrees to provide $10 million on the condition that Sharif transforms Pakistan into a strict Islamic state, which Sharif accepts. [Levy and Scott-Clark, 2007, pp. 193-194] Bhutto is not assassinated at this time, but bin Laden allegedly helps Sharif replace Bhutto one year later (see October 1990).

Oh, there's a little bit more about Obama's pick to help the situation in Pakistan:

According to a senior Pakistani intelligence source, bin Laden passes a considerable amount of money to Sharif and his party, since Sharif promises to introduce a hard-line Islamic government. Bin Laden has been supporting Sharif for several years. There is said to be a photograph of Sharif chatting with bin Laden.

So, that is the answer that the Obama administration has for the protection of Pakistan? Empower a known ally of Osama bin Laden? Sure, let's take a fragile government in Pakistan, throw American support behind the government's chief rival, a friend of Osama bin Laden...a known terrorist supporter and just see how the chips fall. You know, sometimes one has to wonder if things could possibly get worse in Afghanistan and then you read something like this - this is how an American President with sympathies to terrorists and radical islamists can virtually blow up a country clinging to secularism. This is exactly how Pakistan will end up in the hands of the Taliban and al Qaeda...and America will be the mastermind of it?

Obama reaches out to Pakistan's Sharif: report

But now some Obama administration officials say those ties could be useful in helping Zardari?s government to confront the challenge from Taliban insurgents, the report said.
The Pakistani government ceded control of the nearby Swat valley to Islamists in February, signing a deal to allow religious hardliners to enforce Islamic law in the region in order to end a bloody two-year rebellion led by a radical cleric.
But instead of disarming as required under the deal, the Taliban instead pushed further south towards Islamabad, taking over large swathes of Lower Dir and Buner.
According to the paper, the US move reflects heightened concern in the Obama administration about the survivability of the Zardari government.
The head of the United States Central Command, General David Petraeus, has said in private meetings in Washington that the Pakistani government is increasingly vulnerable, The Times said.
No one in the administration is trying to broker an actual power-sharing agreement between Zardari and Sharif, the paper noted.
But administration officials say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, have both urged Zardari and Sharif to look for ways to work together, The Times said.