How America set Bhutto up for the kill

Funded her enemies

we bomb the wrong people, make devils' bargains, create new enemies and bring misery to friends

Bhutto. Our government's hands could hardly be bloodier had we pulled the trigger, set off the bomb or trained her assassin

When it comes to Pakistan, we have a long history of mucking things up

Rice unwittingly set Bhutto up for the kill by convincing her to return to Pakistan

American policy led to the creation of the Taliban and al-Qaeda--forces officially blamed for killing her—and funneled those forces into Pakistan from Tora Bora

allowed Pakistan to develop the long-dreaded "Islamic bomb" by turning a blind eye to the activities of A.Q. Kahn

serving as midwife for those nukes, we raised the stakes so high in Pakistan that events there now imperil our world

"The Nuclear Jihadist"

"Iran and the Bomb"

"America and the Islamic Bomb"

"Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons"

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,