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The Best-Laid Five-Minute Plans of Bill Richardson.
By Mark SteynIts tempting to rerun my column on Pakistan from a month ago. Not because I predicted the assassination of Benazir Bhutto or offered any other great insight, but rather for the opposite reason: Everyones an expert on Pakistan, a faraway country of which we know everything: General Musharraf should do this, he shouldnt have done that, the State Department should lean on him to do the other Well, I dunno. It seems to me a certain humility is appropriate when offering advice to Islamabad. Oh, well. In the stampede of instant experts unveiling their Pakistani solutions-in-a-box, some contributions are worthy of special attention. Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who is apparently running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was in no doubt about what needs to happen in the next, oh, 48 hours: President Bush should press Musharraf to step aside, and a broad-based coalition government, consisting of all the democratic parties, should be formed immediately... It is in the interests of the U.S. that there be a democratic Pakistan that relentlessly hunts down terrorists. Wow. Who knew it was that easy? Posted by: john frum 2007-12-31 |
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