[melancholy]

Military regimes are never appealing to Western sensibilities. Yet, there are desperate hours when they provide the only, slim hope for a country nearing collapse. Democracy is certainly preferable - but, unfortunately, it's not always immediately possible. Like spoiled children, we have to have it now - and damn the consequences.

We've got to learn to stop sabotaging our own WoT for a dream that will not come true!

Here are parts of one of my posts yesterday; I reposted the parts today agreeing with Bolton, w/links to both posts.

>>>>Moslem countries can’t be ruled democratically as in the US or the West. Turkey is a slight exception, the army is preserving the democracy there by the force of arms, if necessary, hardly our type of democracy.<<<<

>>>>Musharraf WAS the President and the head of the army untill we put pressure on him to lose his uniform to accomodate BB to be a democratic Prime Minister. Our people don’t understand my first paragraph. They still want “democracy” in a place that can’t ACCEPT IT!<<<<

>>>>Enters BB, she returned to Pakistan from exile. Musharraf put her under house arrest after the first carbomb hit her motorcade going home from the airport. She sUrvived but hundreds were killed and injured. Musharraf declared martial law and suspended the coming elections. Musharraf was pressured AGAIN by US for, yes again, DEMOCRACY!<<<<<

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945162/posts?page=41#41

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944679/posts?page=641#641

[angkor]

>>>>Musharraf was pressured AGAIN by US for, yes again, DEMOCRACY!<<<<<

From day one (Moosh’s “retirement” from the military) I’ve wondered whether the people at State and elsewhere who call for “democracy in Pakistan” are childishly naive, dumb-as-rocks stupid, cynically evil, or lost completely in the fog of Foggy Bottom.

Don’t they yet understand beyond understanding that Muslims are nearly incapable of running a civil society, let alone a “democracy”.