Dancing with the Dictator

[nhboy]

"We'd better get out the Rolodex," a senior U.S. official joked grimly on Saturday when he was asked whether the Bush administration needed to start making new friends in Pakistan. After six years of propping up and making excuses for Pervez Musharraf, however, Washington doesn't have many friends left to call on in Pakistan—perhaps the No. 1 generator of anti-U.S. terrorism in the world today. That's the dilemma that democracy crusader George W. Bush faces after Musharraf, one of his firmest allies, took the dictator's path and declared martial law on Saturday. There is perhaps no place on earth that more powerfully validates Bush's idea that democracy can be a cure for terrorism than Pakistan. And there is perhaps no place on earth that so powerfully exposes his occasional hypocrisy in failing to push for that policy."

US Hands Tied on Pakistan | Newsweek Voices - Michael Hirsh | Newsweek.com

 

[ImnoMensa]

So I suppose the Democrats have a better idea??? No: they dont, they just lay blame , they dont have a clue what to do either.

Never liked Musharaff ,but I doubt we could have done anything to stop this from happening.

 

[SamSpade]

So I suppose the Democrats have a better idea??? No: they dont, they just lay blame , they dont have a clue what to do either.

Never liked Musharaff ,but I doubt we could have done anything to stop this from happening.

Agreed, and there's another thread on this. It's like the Shah - he was an nasty SOB, but the alternative has been worse.