Obama Says He'd Send Troops Into Pakistan....
POSTED BY: Jongsstraw
UPDATED: Saturday, March 14, 2026 03:38
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Originally posted by kpo:
There's an important point here about how our ally Musharraf is a military dictator who led a recent coup to oust a democratic government -
And with it the suggestion that if we prop up his kind of regime instead of promoting democracy, then we are inadvertently fostering extremisim in the country.
Somebody more informed or with more time to research could make this point better than I - but let me offer a quote I heard from the former female Pakistani prime minister Murtaza Bhutto, who basically says that Musharraf and Islamic extremism need each other to survive:
"It is dictatorship that leads to the rise of extremist groups. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc are all countries that share a background of long periods of military or authoritarian rule. The best defense against extremism and terrorism is the promotion of freedom, human dignity, rule of law, tolerance and pluralism. The present marginalization of moderate political parties in Pakistan can cause blow-back in time. There is a political vacuum in Pakistan which is dangerous to the future."
Heads should roll.
Thanks for you great post. It really makes one think about how the USA determines who our friends and enemies are...look at Saudia Arabia, or so many other dicatator-run countries...pretty sad records of human rights, etc...but we are "over-our-heads" engaged in Iraq to supposedly establish a democracy...seems like a stretch beyond the pale.
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some people's brain must be all... twisty.... cause they aint working right
Quote:So Prez Musharraf is "on our side?" But only as long as he (1) doesn't actually have to hunt for ObL (2) doesn't have to allow us to do the hunting for him and (3) doesn't actually have to confront radical Islam in his country (4) doesn't have to secure his nukes, and (5) the money keeps rolling in.
Obama says he'd send troops into about the one country in the M.E. whose President is actually on our side. The one country which happens to have the bomb, along w/ more than a few million in that country who'd love to use that bomb on us.....
Lovely.
With supporters like that, who need enemies?
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Always look upstream.
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