Musharraf vs. the Bush Doctrine

[varun]

Even the repugs are getting it. Bush doctrine is a failure (Read the comments as well)

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2007/11/05/musharraf_vs_the_bush_doctrine?page=full&comments=true

The sound you hear in Pakistan is a couple of pillars of Bush administration foreign policy crumbling away.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- the army chief of staff who seized power in a 1999 coup -- figured that if he declared a state of emergency and suspended his country's constitution, a Bush administration that has made the promotion of democracy a matter of gospel would merely tut-tut and keep the aid dollars flowing. It might be the only correct judgment the embattled general has made in the past year.


Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf speaks in Islamabad in this image taken from television footage dated November 3, 2007. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf addressed the nation on Saturday hours after imposing emergency rule, saying terrorism and extremism had reached their limit and his country's sovereignty was at stake. REUTERS/PTV via Reuters TV (PAKISTAN) PAKISTAN OUT

Musharraf's lurch back toward dictatorship, with the Bush administration unwilling to try to do anything serious to counter it, is another blow to the administration's doctrinaire commitment to democracy-promotion. It shows how other primal geopolitical instincts, such as simple fear of the unknown (who would replace Musharraf if he fell?), necessarily trump a preference for the ballot box...

[tom_paine]

1. Fuck him. Toadying little Bushie. He only cares that they aren't WINNING

He only cares that his whole False Reality Bubble, the monster which he drew his filthy blood money and continues to draw it, for sucking and nurturing the basest of lies.

For at least a decade, maybe two.

Fuck you, Lowry. I very much hope that you are sent to the level off hell reserved for people like you, you and the middle-management minions at the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda. You know, the guys who went out and bought the birthday cake for the big boss Goebbels, lit the candles and lead the singing.

You and Hannity and Coulter will be very happy alongside such kindred souls. Well, as happy as one could be in the 11th circle of Hell, CorpAdverticus.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28898

Ahhh, satire. Would that it were so and justice will reign for these monsters and their enablers in the afterlife if not this one.