the hits keep coming/musharraf bowing out in pakistan

[gardenweasel]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan ? Faced with desertions by his political supporters and the unsettling neutrality of the Pakistani military, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is expected to resign in the next few days rather than face impeachment, Pakistani politicians and Western diplomats said Thursday.

His departure from office seems likely to unleash new instability in the country as the two main parties in the civilian government jockey for his share of power. It would also remove from the political stage the man who has served as the Bush administration?s main ally here for the last eight years.


well,this certainly isn`t good news for the libs war of choice in afghanistan...

take a look at a map of afghanistan...the only other route there that doesn't go through pakistan goes through several other countries, many of which are unstable or hostile (and the one from turkey requires crossing the caspian sea)...

i repeat...theres a good chance that the mission in afghanistan is f***ed if the new pakistani leadership goes against the u.s....as they probably will...

musharraf had his warts,but he at least was known and understood...


and then theres the nukes....

not only us,but india has some interesting times ahead of them...

 

[kosar]

I don't understand this. I had just read a couple days ago that they didn't have near enough votes to impeach him.

 

[gardenweasel]

I don't understand this. I had just read a couple days ago that they didn't have near enough votes to impeach him.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

get your markers out.....cause heres an area where i think bush(and the dems in congress) f-cked up.....and it looks like we're about to reap what we've sown...

bush shoulda stood by musharraf back when musharraf finally had the armed forces take out the "red mosque" in the capital....

instead, and no doubt due to the effin' incompetency of our state dept.(and alot of bitching from the dems when they gained control of congress) we decided he wasn't..

a) democratic"enough" and

b) wasn't going to bring the nw frontier provinces under control.....(like that was a cakewalk to do)...

he wanted to attack the red mosque to illustrate that he was going after al qaeda when he could... and that he was at least as democratic as anyone has been in pakistan in decades and now we're gonna wind up with a possible, if not probable, radical islamic government with nuclear weapons and the missile systems with which to deliver same....

not democratic enough?...it`s the f-cking wild west out there....f-cking idiots...

 

[kosar]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin

get your markers out.....cause heres an area where i think bush(and the dems in congress) f-cked up.....and it looks like we're about to reap what we've sown...

bush shoulda stood by musharraf back when musharraf finally had the armed forces take out the "red mosque" in the capital....

instead, and no doubt due to the effin' incompetency of our state dept.(and alot of bitching from the dems when they gained control of congress) we decided he wasn't..

a) democratic"enough" and

b) wasn't going to bring the nw frontier provinces under control.....(like that was a cakewalk to do)...

he wanted to attack the red mosque to illustrate that he was going after al qaeda when he could... and that he was at least as democratic as anyone has been in pakistan in decades and now we're gonna wind up with a possible, if not probable, radical islamic government with nuclear weapons and the missile systems with which to deliver same....

not democratic enough?...it`s the f-cking wild west out there....f-cking idiots...

Well, this guy has had to walk a very fine line.

I think he just decided to live out the rest of his life in relative peace rather than go the way of Bhutto. Assassinated and all that.

It makes no sense, other than that. He would not be impeached.

You blame Bush and the 'democratic congress'? For what?

This guy has been in power since 1999 (I believe, but it's close to that within a year either way). It was a military coup that brought him into power, as you know, albeit non-violent.

WTF would you have us do?

People like you never look at the broad picture. No historical context and no understanding of how an occupation would be, was and is taken.

That's why we went into Iraq and that's why we're still there.

You STILL don't understand that we can't impose our will on these countries? It won't work.

I mean. :mj07: :shrug:

Jesus Christ.