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U.S.' dilemma
Sir, — If on September 11, 2001, the U.S. was caught napping, its subsequent response was, mildly put, self-defeating and embarrassing. Not having got what it mainly set out for, the U.S. is now busy looking for excuses to disengage itself from Afghanistan. The U.S. may not have got bogged down there, but the confusion and bewilderment it has experienced do not make its operations any less disastrous. Whatever the media may be made to say about the operations, after a sustained, expensive engagement, it is indeed humiliating for a superpower to be left high and dry with the original targets unachieved. Perhaps, the U.S. is now thinking, how worthwhile it would have been had Pakistan, instead of being chosen an ally, been branded a benefactor of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda and dealt with as such! Osama would then have been deprived of an escape route, which he has most likely taken now, to defeat the U.S. designs.
Devraj Sambasivan,
Alappuzha, Kerala
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