Mon
Nov
12
2007
In search of monsters...
He said he was forced to declare a state of emergency because Islamic extremists were threatening the government’s authority.
Pervez Musharraf — who took power in a 1999 military coup — basically invokes the one sentiment that can give any democratic leader the power to do whatever he/she wants.
It doesn’t take an over active imagination to consider such a move in the U.S. by its president, especially the current one.
So here we go, a dictator in Pakistan is an “indispensable ally” in the war on terror according to Bush. I thought it was freedom we were after. If dictators are acceptable then clearly Saddam Hussein was in the clear because we never worried about a terrorist act occurring within Iraq until he was deposed.
So what are we doing in Iraq, or even Afghanistan anymore I ask. If freedom is what the U.S. supports then clearly its president must speak out against the dictator putting down his country’s own pin-striped revolution. These brave scholars and academics simply want the freedom to vote.
So here the U.S. stands in the eyes of the world: A barrier to freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The U.S. established its beacon in the middle east good enough , a beacon of how to foment unrest and destabilization!
And a nasty little precedent, for any statist leader to go in search of monsters and settle any score they want.
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