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| America paying lip service to collapsing Musharraf regime |
| 2007-07-04 |
| 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 Pakistan’s 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 everyone’s biggest foreign policy problem. He identifies Gen Musharraf’s “problem” as his failure to have acted swiftly and ruthlessly to set Pakistan’s politics on a proper course. Given the complexity of Pakistan’s internal problems, the holding of free and fair elections might not check the country’s check drift toward extremism. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 should Perv fall, and an even-more-Islamist regime install, there won't be the lip-service, nor the need for a facade of respecting Pak sovereignty. Hot-pursuit, with air cover and CAS to kill bad guys all the way back to their shit-hovels should be the order of the day. Any Pak AF rising to intervene gets blown from the sky. Sound good ISI? Army? Air Force? Control your house. Without Perv you lose the pretense of being "helpful" as opposed to "something worse". If you can't roust the Taliban and other bearded inbred assholes, you won't oust our guys - ever |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-07-04 20:48 |
| #4 If that is the case, then in years to come, a nuclear-armed and terrorism-capable Pakistan will become everyoneÂ’s biggest foreign policy problem. This can never be allowed to happen. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-04 13:25 |
| #3 I wonder if this is really a #1 priority for the US, as opposed to, say, India? I wonder that the Indian government really has given us an earful about managing this, or the extent to which they're ready to take it on? Pashtun nationalism impinging from the Afghan side would also be a nice irony. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Democracy by Diversion Division 2007-07-04 11:54 |
| #2 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 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-04 04:30 |
| #1 The holding of free and fair elections in Pakistan can only ensure the countryÂ’s plunge into extremism. |
| Posted by: Pearl Greaper5013 2007-07-04 01:43 |