Pakistan - SPECTACULAR FAILURE For Bush-MOCKERY Of His Promotion Of Democracy (NYT)

[kpete]

November 4, 2007
News Analysis
Officials See Few Options for U.S.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and HELENE COOPER

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.

Mr. Bush entered a delicate dance with Pakistan immediately after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when General Musharraf pledged his cooperation in the fight against Al Qaeda, whose top leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are believed to be hiding out in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04assess.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

[gateley]

1. K&R! Thank you. nt

[magellan]

2. Oops, cat's outta the bag

As if we didn't know all along that BushCo was irresponsibly backing a MILITARY DICTATOR in an UNSTABLE NUCLEAR NATION that BIN LADEN calls his second home.

(And if you didn't know this, welcome to the reality Bush** doesn't want you to see.)

[tekisui]

3. Line this up next to the Palestinian election success.

knr.

[madrchsod]

4. egypt is basically an elected dictatorship

that receives billions in aid because somehow the congress believes the country really is a democracy. ya we have some really great friends in the middle east

[The Magistrate]

5. Even Congress-Critters, Sir, Are Not So Foolish As To Imagine Egypt A Democracy

Everyone knows democracy, in the sense of the will of the people determining the actions of their government, is the last thing any U.S. government woudl want just now in the Middle East....

[Disturbed]

6. All this BS about "democracy" from Busholini is merely a

pablum for Americans to cover up the Imperialism being practiced to control ME Oil & other
resources. Anyone that believes the BS is, no nice way to put it, stupid.

Pakistan is not the only Dictatorship that is supported by the Busholini Regime & the Congress.

Saudi Arabia comes to mind right off the top.

[madrchsod]

7. yes you are on point ...

sometimes i have a moment of wishful thinking...