[OldFriend]

Our media is hoping that Musharraf is assassinated. They are already blaming the attempts on his life as President Bush's fault for enlisting his help. (SICK SICK SICK, isn't it) and they will carry on that the Pakistan nukes are now in the hands of our enemies.

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[quantim]

Musharraf has good reason to be paranoid. Surely his greatest threats are indeed inside hardliners. What kind of loyalty he can continue to surround himself is the big question in what I believe to be the #1 terrorist state on the planet.

[Viking2002]

The thought of Musharraf being taken out is a scenario I don't want to think about. He already has a boatlaod of fundamentalist sympathizers in his military; without him controlling things, there'd be a helluva struggle for power. If the Al Queda faction got their hands on the switch, we may have no choice but to pre-emptively hit their nuke capabilities - otherwise, at the very least, they'd probably settle a few scores (like Kashmir) with India by smoking places like New Delhi. And you know several of the warheads would be exported to their sleeper cell comrades all over the world. Wholesale nuclear terrorism. It seems to me that I read an intelligence report online stating that we do, in fact, have a plan in place to neutralize their nuke capabilities if just such an event occurred.

[LouisianaLobster]

This is the most important Al-Qaeda threath of the moment, and in the meantime we're distracted cancelling plane flights.

[DannyTN]

With regard to the Muslim state.

Any Muslim dictator, with the exception of Arafat, who wants to stay in power and not be the target of Islamic extremists needs to radically eliminate Islam from his country.

It should be obvious by now that Islamic extremists are always going to assume that the leadership is evil and attempt to remove the evil leadership and put themselves in charge.

This seems to be true regardless of how evil the Muslim dictator. Musharraf is relatively peaceful, so he is a target. The Saudi's are relatively peaceful, so he is a target. Saddam was inherently evil, he too was a target.

Arafat seems to be the only Muslim dictator that isn't regularly targeted for assassination by extremist Muslim elements. I suspect this is either because they expect or want Israel to do it so they have a rallying cry. Or because he is so two faced, constantly saying one thing in English only to say the exact opposite in Arabic, that he has a sort of charisma among the Muslim extremists. Not only that, it's probably politically wiser to support Arafat than to challenge him if you are a Islamist.

[AmericanVictory]

It is difficult to overestimate the value of this man's leadership to the future of the world. He has been unblinkingly honest and right about issue after issue at an absolutely overwhelming risk to his life. And he is the perfect illustration why we need to stop prating about "democracy" without focusing on republicanism as its container, what he has called "sustainable democracy," which is the absolute requirement for the future of Pakistan and the entire Islamic world.

[Glenn]

I asked an Indian colleague about this mess today. He is certain it was a Hollywood setup by the Pakistani leader. Something to curry favor in Washington.

Curry favor.

Sometimes I crack myself up.