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2008-08-20 India-Pakistan

Pakistan coalition cracks after Musharraf quits

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 What? Oh, yes, they are completely secured.

Posted by KBK 2008-08-20 00:33|| 2008-08-20 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Mush wasn't so bad I thought and he resigned peacefully unlike most dictators.

Posted by JitterBug 2008-08-20 11:00|| 2008-08-20 11:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The meme that Perv resigned "to avoid impeachment" is a silly western notion that should be rejected. Up to the last, if he had wanted to, he could have directed the army to dissolve their parliament, their Supreme Court justices to be hung, etc., and they would have obeyed.

Perv is smarter than that, however. He was at a personal impasse, where he could no longer do what he really wanted to do--unite Pakistan under the central government--but had become an obstacle to that goal.

The wisest of leaders always remember two very important rules: to pick, train, and supervise their successors so that they understand and agree with their ideas and want to continue them; and then to get far out of the picture in such a way that you do not trip them up.

It also helps to have so crushed the disloyal and stupid opposition so much that they have no chance of disrupting the succession.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-08-20 11:52|| 2008-08-20 11:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Up to the last, if he had wanted to, he could have directed the army to dissolve their parliament, their Supreme Court justices to be hung, etc., and they would have obeyed.

Its very questionable whether the army, which now reports to a new chief of staff, would have obeyed.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-20 11:53|| 2008-08-20 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 An unstable Pakistan is the only reason we put up with Mushy--the lesser of two evils. If AQ has vowed to hunt him down, maybe New Mexico or other secure US location should take him for safekeeping until Halliburton has their way with him. Allowing Perv to keep his head may result in lots of gratuities that would otherwise be lost forever.

Posted by Danielle 2008-08-20 12:25|| 2008-08-20 12:25|| Front Page Top

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