Given the anti-American bent of those who are coming into power, I doubt we'll have much input or even influence.
Moreover, this result is going to embolden the Islamists that infest the ISI.
You can expect less, not more, effort to control the lunatics roaming around in the Tribal Areas. You might even expect that they will be surreptitiously funded by the ISI.
Ditto for Kashmir.
These are likely to be troubled times for the Subcontinent.
That’s one possible outcome, but we’ve been preparing for this contingency for some time, and we were instrumental in organizing their elections. We still have some leverage there.
Correct. More of the slide into Islamic fundamentalism.
Which has basically nullified and destroyed any concept of Mid-East culture and influence.
But there is a country there that won’t take this lying down.
And they have the means and discipline and will, and they are already getting a bit fed up.
India will, if it decides to and believes it has to do it to survive, slaughter them unmercifully. Virgins or not.
And the world!!!
There is cause for worry. Musharraf, faults and all, was still an ally. Who knows if his successor will be. Troubled times indeed (you have a gift for understatement).