The Obama administration no longer has to worry about an immediate legal challenge to its policy of targeting terrorists, including American citizens, for assassination.
But the army's diffidence is increasingly being taken as evidence that, despite Mr Musharraf's protestations to the contrary, Pakistan never abandoned its policy of harbouring terrorists at home and sponsoring them abroad.
In addition to the demolitions due to lack of permits, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in early November the reinstatement of the policy of demolishing terrorists' homes, which Palestinians claim is a form of collective punishment.
For its part, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement complaining that Washington was not ready to fully cooperate in the struggle against Islamic State militants and needed to rethink its policy of "dividing terrorists into good and bad ones".
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the Obama administration's policy of targeting terrorists abroad with unmanned drone strikes is "a good policy," even though he disagrees with most of President Barack Obama's views on national security.
However, the longer-term policy of countering terrorist ideology is a complex and difficult project that has hardly begun.
Pakistan's national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as "strategic depth," is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations.
Under Bush policy, targeted killings of terrorists wherever they were or deemed to be, was sacrosant.
Regardless of how Trump expresses his positions, his fear-mongering about Muslims and "the other" amounts to a policy of appeasement toward terrorists, who crave notoriety.
But, of course, so are those who say that this must not distract attention from the many hard things that Israel is indeed doing in the territories.Since April, these have gone beyond the policy of assassinating suspected terrorists.
