Pakistan more violent conflict can’t be far off
Let’s see if you take a military ruler and then place him in region with a democratic reformer with a large following what do you get? It was only a couple of weeks ago that the former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan. She has condemned the suspenion of the constitution. This situation is ripe for some significant violence.
Of course, the US is deep in this crisis. The Washington Post reported that Cheney’s office are practically running Pakistan’s foreign policy.
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From CNN.com:
Bhutto said she agreed with his diagnosis, but not the cure.
“I believe it is dictatorship which has fueled extremism,” she said by telephone from her home.
“Dictatorship feeds off extremism and extremism feeds off dictatorship. Dictatorship needs the extremist threat to justify itself in power.”
“He chose to have a military solution and that is not good,” Bhutto said of Musharraf. (more…)
