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Old 11-07-07, 01:58 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Re: Pakistan's Turmoil Requires A Prudent U.S. Foreign Policy Response

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Originally Posted by bhkad View Post

Democracy is promoted but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power.


Let's all just get used to the fact that we will ALWAYS be slightly hypocritical at times.
If pakistans Junta is only concerned with subverting democracy in order to stop the islamists then why is it trying to arrest [secular] opossistion leaders like Imran Kahn? The islamists may serve as a convenient excuse but the Junta's real enemy is democracy itself
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