Pakistan: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth
So said Newsweek Magazine last week. But, I’ve been saying this for the past few months.
So while this Administration continues its LIES to try and justify an upcoming attack on IRAN, the REAL threat to GLOBAL SECURITY – PAKISTAN, remains low on the American’s public radar – a MISTAKE.
What happened today in Pakistan should trouble people who worry about Global Security.
Pakistani PM: State of emergency to last ‘as long as necessary’
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan will be under a state of emergency for “as long as it is necessary,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday, a day after Pervez Musharraf suspended the constitution and widened his powers as president and military chief.
In a commentary written for CNN on Sunday, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto called Musharraf’s plan “a step to entrench his dictatorship” and called for elections under an independent caretaker government.
But Aziz said it could be months before parliamentary elections — scheduled for January — will take place.
“The parliament could give itself more time, up to a year, in terms of holding the next elections,” Aziz said. “However, at this point, no decision has been made.”
The state of emergency had been imposed to “bring more harmony to the pillars of state” and to protect against extremism in the country, Aziz said.
Hundreds of people have been detained.
Earlier in the day, Musharraf’s spokesman, Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan, said on Dubai-based GEO TV that parliamentary elections would be delayed indefinitely.
Aziz stressed that despite the emergency measure, Musharraf’s government is “committed to pursuing our parliamentary form of government” and “making sure elections are held.”
Before imposing the state of emergency, Musharraf had vowed to hold elections no later than January 15.
The move has put the United States in a precarious position and has raised fears about widespread chaos in Pakistan, a nuclear nation.
Rest of Article Here.
Bhutto’s commentary on CNN.com-No Time for Dictatorship
Secretary of State Rice has indicated that there will be U.S. Review of Aid given to Pakistan, which has topped 10 Billion Dollars. I don’t expect for this to be anything more than some saber rattling from the USA. While they don’t have to like what Musharraf has done, the USA deals with a lot of not-so-nice folks. But, whatever his faults, Musharraf is OUR present devil that we know. If the USA could be assured that one of Musharraf’s opponents, who also happen to fall into the Moderate Muslim Category that goes against Islamist Extremism, like Mrs. Bhutto, could get complete control over the country, they’d back that person in a heartbeat. But, good or bad, Mr. Musharraf’s tenuous control is still control, and the alternatives could be worse for the USA. Keep an eye out for the happenings in Pakistan.
One of the reasons why we shouldn’t even be talking about IRAN, is because, whatever we have left of our Armed Forces, needs to be able to do something in Pakistan, in case it falls.
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“…whatever we have left of our Armed Forces, needs to be able to do something in Pakistan, in case it falls.”
Whoa. I don’t mean to be impolite, rkyrah, but what are you smoking? Just what do you imagine the US armed forces can DO in Pakistan? With 161 million people it’s the 6th most populous nation in the world. The US armed forces could not even subjugate Iraq’s mere 25 million, or the similar number who lived in Vietnam 40 years ago. Oh, and Pakistan has had nukes since about 1998.
And even if, in the dream world of empire, US ruling circles could impose their will on Pakistan, what gives them the right to?
And finally, since this is supposed to be a black viewpoint on politics and such, pray tell us how black folks will benefit from a US intervention in Pakistan? We all understand that Barack Obama has advocated an invasion of Pakistan to show hawkish white folks, military contractors and others that he’s no wimpy liberal, and if I remember right, you have said you support the guy. But think about it. How on god’s green earth can there be any good ending, any positive outcome for any US military intervention in Pakistan, just as there is none sight for Afhanistan or Iraq or Iran, and there was none for Vietnam?
Hug?
Isn‘t this demonization so quick, and why at this moment?
Doesn‘t the West want to put another puppet i charge?
Do you remember/informed how the CIA manipulated the then Iran cha, and for what?
Hug? hug?
I’m not demonizing Mr. Musharraf. The demonizing is being done, unneccessarily to Iran – who isn’t remotely close to having Nukes. Pakistan HAS nukes – that’s not up for any kind of debate. There are some very hostile forces in Pakistan towards the USA. If the wrong hostile forces get in, come on now…they wouldn’t hesitate to give their friends a nuke.
Still the question remains, dear lady, what makes you imagine that the US military is even remotely the answer to anything going on in Pakistan, as you began this conversation by suggesting?
What the US needs to do is stop giving $$$ to Pakistan. PERIOD! For one thing, the US is monetarily supporting a dictatorship. Musharraf wasn’t elected, he staged a coup against Pakistan’s democratically elected Mrs. Bhutto. Pakistan has been downhill ever since.
By declaring a so-called “emergency” Musharraf is enabling terrorism. Think about it…the only people being arrested are lawyers, judges, human rights leaders and moderate muslims, NOT the terrorists slaughtering and seizing rural Pakistanis’ and property.
What makes this situation so messed up is that Condoleeza and friends have known and been warned about Musharraf’s personal agenda from the very beginning, yet American taxpayers continue to pay for Pakistan’s military state.