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2007-07-04 India-Pakistan

America paying lip service to collapsing Musharraf regime

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Posted by Fred 2007-07-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The holding of free and fair elections in Pakistan can only ensure the countrys plunge into extremism.

Posted by Pearl Greaper5013 2007-07-04 01:43|| 2007-07-04 01:43|| Front Page Top

#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 ~~Iran and the Pahlavi Regime~~ 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.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-07-04 04:30|| 2007-07-04 04:30|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-07-04 11:54|| Front Page Top

#4 If that is the case, then in years to come, a nuclear-armed and terrorism-capable Pakistan will become everyones biggest foreign policy problem.

This can never be allowed to happen.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-04 13:25|| 2007-07-04 13:25|| Front Page Top

#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">Frank G 2007-07-04 20:48|| 2007-07-04 20:48|| Front Page Top

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