Musharraf Leaves White House in Lurch

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more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04assess.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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.

Pakistani Sets Emergency Rule, Defying the U.S. (November 4, 2007) 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.

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1. "American-backed military dictator "

That's the worst part of it right there, because it makes a mockery for our last excuse for being in Iraq, the bringing of democracy...It really hurts because of the whole "terrorism happens because of the oppression of totalitarian regimes" narrative which was advanced to bring down Saddam. I think we should just take the nukes from Pakistan and run, or make a tiny section of Pakistan with the nukes which we occupy along with Musharaf loyalists and give the rest of the country to the majority. (The 51% that likes OBL vs the 3% that likes musharaf)

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2. Breaking: Lurch Addams Devours Musharraf, Flees White House

Sorry. Couldn't help it.