Monday, August 25, 2008

The shoe drops in Pakistan. Next, the military coup

On July 21st, I blogged about the coming regime change in Pakistan, and worried if the country was heading towards yet another military coup, which has been the norm for Pakistan. Since then I blogged more about Pakistan. It is awful how predictable the developments have been. Now, according to the BBC, "Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his PML-N party is pulling out of the country's multi-party governing coalition."

I am all the more amazed at how every American politician--Republican and Democrat--was putting pressure on Musharraf to leave, without thinking about what might happen if he actually left. I wrote about this almost one year ago; but, as in my classes and at home, nobody listens to me :-)

Condi Rice does not have any time for this because she is already up to her head with Iraq, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Georgia .... The Democrats are busy with their party at Denver. The Republicans are preoccupied with the next nasty negative ad they can craft. It means that it is all up to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to advice us :-(

Millions more in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India will now have to sleep with one eye open, watching out for the coming chaos. And we will watch it with the same fascination we have for car wrecks on television.

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