" . . .if the state of emergency drags on, the administration will be faced with the difficult decision of whether to cut off that aid and risk undermining Pakistan’s efforts to pursue terrorists — a move the White House believes could endanger the security of the United States."
BobW
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Sujeet Bhatt <sujeet.bhatt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04assess.html?em&ex=1194411600&en=4c1aceb6a572e1b8&ei=5087%0A
> >
> > News Analysis
> > Musharraf Leaves White House in Lurch
> >
> > By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and HELENE COOPER
> > Published: November 4, 2007
> >
> > WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 — For more than five months the
> United States has
> > been trying to orchestrate a political transition
> in Pakistan that
> > would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf
> in power without
> > making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of
> democracy in the
> > Muslim world.
> >
> > On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart
> spectacularly. Now
> > the White House is stuck in wait-and-see mode,
> with limited options
> > and a lack of clarity about the way forward.
> >
> > General Musharraf's move to seize emergency powers
> and abandon the
> > Constitution left Bush administration officials
> close to their
> > nightmare: an American-backed military dictator
> who is risking civil
> > instability in a country with nuclear weapons and
> an increasingly
> > alienated public. ...
>
> Yes, I certainly chortled over that piece of NYT
> analysis -- or at
> least I chortled as much as reasonable considering
> the extreme global
> peril the Pakistani crisis presents. Musharraf's
> action puts a bomb
> right down the smokestack of Bush's foreign policy
> -- GWB's whole
> illusionist stunt of bringing democracy to the
> Islamic world has been
> blown to smithereens. Not a shred of the US's
> pretense to be an
> advocate of civil liberty in the Islamic world
> remains intact.
>
> Carl
>
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