“I always thought we were quick to push democracy there.”
I simply don’t understand why the US starts making public pushing for elections in places that would be much more stable with a generally pro-american dictatorship. The US isn’t going to get a perfect government in most countries it wants to politically interfere in, but honestly I don’t see how we could get a more favorable government in Pakistan, regardless of problems with the current one. Folks on FR and other places make one-liner comments, but seriously, who is going to replace Musharraf who has a similar amount of control over the military, the intelligence service, etc.? We are talking about a nuclear power here with a political system centuries behind ours.
President Bush has bought into the Natan Shiransky(sp)concept that a democratically elected govenment is the precurser to the elimination of radical ideology.
I do not agree. We need friendly dictatorships.