Another Policy Failure for the Bush Administration

>With the assassination of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, the U.S. foreign policy under the Bush administration has had another failure. The White House, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, and others within the current administration, had brokered the deal to get Bhutto back to Pakistan. This administration's inept backroom strategies to push Bhutto to return to Pakistan shows that they underestimated the volatility in that country. The Bush administration demonstrated once again their inability to study, read, and prepare for anything. Now Bhutto's death has created further unrest and greater problems.

>Following Bhutto's murder, Republican Mike Huckabee had this to say, according to the NY Times:

On Thursday night he told reporters in Orlando, Fla.: “We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country.”

On Friday, in Pella, Iowa, he expanded on those remarks.

“When I say single them out I am making the observation that we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border,” he told reporters in Pella. “And in light of what is happening in Pakistan it ought to give us pause as to why are so many illegals coming across these borders.”

In fact, far more illegal immigrants come from the Philippines, Korea, China and Vietnam, according to recent estimates from the Department of Homeland Security.....

Huckabee is a putz. He should read some statistics before he speaks. Pakistanis are not even in the top 25 ethnic groups getting here illegally.