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2007-03-23 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 another old style power hungry Third World military ruler who is determined to stay in office regardless of what he has to do to ensure that

Mushy's 'Nixon Moment'?

But why would anyone care what the US Press thinks?

Posted by Bobby 2007-03-23 06:49|| 2007-03-23 06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Is there any alternative we can support?????

Bhutto anyone?

Posted by Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-03-23 07:14|| 2007-03-23 07:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Always the last to see the obvious.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-23 09:48|| 2007-03-23 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I strongly disagree. We (Jimmy Carter) abandoned the Shah, and we got the Mullahocracy. We (Jimmy Carter) abandoned Somoza, and we got the Sandinistas.

Perv has never had what either of those two had: complete control over his own country. Instead he has had to deal with enclaves and a government of radicals, along with having an unreliable military and secret police.

He is just the strongest minority leader of a bunch of thugs, each of whom would slit his throat if they thought they could get his job.

So he did a very smart thing. Bush made him a deal, that over years we would help him become stronger at the expense of his enemies, in exchange he would give us quid pro quo in stomping the Islamists.

Gradualism all around.

Even right now, with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the treaty he made with South Wazoo, what is *actually* happening?

Uzbeks and Chechens are getting slaughtered. The tough, trained foreign mercenaries supporting al-Qaeda's and the Taliban's attacks against NATO in Afghanistan.

And who is doing this? Supposedly the renegade tribesmen of South Wazoo. The ones that were said to be the real threat, are instead taking out the baddest of the bad.

Sounds like an *outstanding* quid pro quo there.

And in the final analysis, Perv got it by giving South Wazoo what it already had, that is, de facto autonomy. So it didn't cost him a dime, and got the S Wazoos working for him.

Yes, and I see Bush's hand behind all of it.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-23 11:28|| 2007-03-23 11:28|| Front Page Top

#5 And conveniently we have Wazoo's coordinates.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-03-23 20:35|| 2007-03-23 20:35|| Front Page Top

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