For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush’s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart spectacularly. Now the White House is stuck in wait-and-see mode, with limited options and a lack of clarity about the way forward.
Monday, November 05, 2007
Pakistan
From the NY Times: Straying Partner Leaves White House in a Lurch
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Pakistan is a fundamentalist nightmare. The country is eventually going to fall into the hands of these critters. Then they'll have access to nukes and the game will get more interesting. Or the country will remain what its been since day 1 a Quasi-military dictatorship with democratic periods.
Its also a big fat crap patty on everybody especially Bush. Definitely a lose lose situation.
What a mess - War in Iraq, in Afghanistan, soon in Iran, war in Somalia except nobody knows it. Now Pakistan is going more unstable and its nuclear to boot.
This is exactly what the neo-cons wanted.
They would be even more happy if Syria, North Korea, and Venezuala were in the mix. Hell we might as well go to war with everybody.
Sounds good to them. The problem they have is convincing anyone (other then Emperor BV$H and the OILY crowd and the Weapons lobby) that all these Muslim countries are like the RED menance of yrs. past. I got it they can call it the GREEN menace that would take care of the tree huggers as well. Whatever, these bullies are ready whack anyone just for looking at them wrong.
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