Paul Craig Roberts:Pakistan's "Haqqani Network"

President Obama's claim that he had Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "exterminated" deflated the threat from that long-serving "bogyman". A terror organization that left its leader, unarmed and undefended, a sitting duck for assassination, no longer seems formidable. Time for a new, more threatening bogeyman, which will keep the "war on terror" going! Now, America's worst enemy are the Haqqanis. Moreover, unlike Al Qaeda, which was never tied to a country, the Haqqani network, according to Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a veritable arm of the Pakistani government's intelligence service. ISI. Washington claims that the ISI ordered its Haggani Network to the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, in September 13, along with the US military base in Wadak province. Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Armed Services committee and one of the main Republican warmongers, declared that "all options are on the table" and gave the Pentagon his assurance that in Congress there was broad bipartisan support for a US military attack on Pakistan! As Washington has been killing large numbers of Pakistani civilians with drones, and has forced the Pakistani army to hunt for Al Qaeda throughout most of Pakistan, producing tens of thousands or more of dislocated Pakistanis in the process, Senator Graham must have something larger in mind. The Pakistani government thinks so, too. The Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, called his foreign minister home from talks in Washington and ordered an emergency meeting of the government to assess the prospect of an American invasion.