The Secretary of State doesn’t seem interested is saying anything about the issue. That may be an internal policy of the Hedgemony, but it doesn’t make much sense to the rest of the world.
Getting Musharraf out of uniform, yeah, OK, fine, but bringing back the politicians who get keeping thrown out of the country is not exactly a step forward. Ms. Bhutto was always much more popular in the West than in Pakistan. Involvement of members of Pakistan’s intelligence service is very possible, but I don’t see an up side for Musharraf in this. He would have no good reason to want her dead after they had brokered a deal on a new government.
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]]>It would have been thrilling if Reagan hadn’t gotten us involved with the country to harass the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, because the blow-back has been horrific.
There are too many variables to make reasoned decisions, and too many alliances that aren’t visible on the surface.
The exchange between Axelrod and the reporter demonstrates that Obama shouldn’t let Axelrod respond to foreign policy questions, because he is profoundly ignorant. Pakistan would be a problem, with or without Iraq because the government doesn’t control the tribal territories where the Taliban and al Qaeda operate.
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