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Originally Posted by Iriemon  IMO, a soft soap wink at this power play sends exactly the wrong message. The US attack on Iraq has been sold as a "liberation" to install democracy since no WMD was found, and to support a tyrant over the forces of democracy in Pakistan would be supremely hypocritical. Supporting a dictator may seem like a short term positive, as it did in Iraq and Iran, but in the long run it usually backfires.
The US should send a strong message that it disapproves of these actions. |
Why??? In order to encourage other Islamist uprisings, plots and coups around the world? To force the USA to adhere to a foolishly consistent message that we care more about the textbook process of attaining democracy even when that process might sometimes guarantee the death of freedom?
I think we are sending the right message that while we are disappointed at the need to veer from the Democratic norm we recognize that conditions in Pakistan made Musharraf's actions not only necessary but heroic.
He is preventing global nuclear war and we all should pray for his success.