ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: "After the United States has spent more than $5 billion in a largely failed effort to bolster the Pakistani military effort against militants from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, some American officials now acknowledge that there were too few controls over how the money was spent, and that the strategy to improve the Pakistani military needs to be completely revamped."

Apparently misused in a number of ways, not the least of which is to prop up Musharraf's government.

One can't help but think that this is another lost "war".

Score: Islam 2 1/2, Bush 0.

Nov. 15, 2002 Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"The idea that it's going to be a long, long, long battle of some kind I think is belied by the fact of what happened in 1990," he said on an Infinity Radio call-in program. "Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."

Arf