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[novapsyche]

Musharraf Plays Bush for a Fool

One of the replies echoes something I mentioned to dionysus1999 the other night: that Bush is watching Pakistan and seeing it as a trial run for whatever might happen next year.

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[timiathan.livejournal.com]

The thing that really gets my goat about the whole situation is the cognitive dissonance between the oft-recited belief that spreading democracy is the key to fighting terrorism, and the similarly oft-cited belief that Pakistan needs a hardline militant like Musharraf to hold back the terrorists. If we really thought democracy was the solution, we'd be supporting Bhutto without question. The mainstream media seems unable to discuss this topic and still appease the Bush administration, so what really is a straightforward story comes out silly and garbled.

But yeah, everything is practice for what's coming here. Not only the events in Pakistan, but also Blackwater in the streets of New Orleans, and killing civilians in Iraq, the FEMA detention camps, the warrantless wiretapping, and so on.