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America paying lip service to collapsing Musharraf regime
The United States is paying lip service to a regime that is collapsing before its eyes and that may yet turn truly nasty. Washington treats Pakistan as if it were a Cold War ally, dealing only with its top leadership, according to Stephen Cohen, writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday. According to the noted South Asia expert and author, the great danger of the US dealing only with Pakistans top leadership is that this time around, Pakistan may not have the internal resources to manage its own rescue. If that is the case, then in years to come, a nuclear-armed and terrorism-capable Pakistan will become everyones biggest foreign policy problem. He identifies Gen Musharrafs problem as his failure to have acted swiftly and ruthlessly to set Pakistans politics on a proper course. Given the complexity of Pakistans internal problems, the holding of free and fair elections might not check the countrys check drift toward extremism. Posted by: Fred 2007-07-04 |
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