Dancing with the Dictator

CRICKETER IMRAN KHAN ARRESTED AS TERRORIST IN PAKISTAN !
THAT MEANS ANYONE CAN BE ARRESTED AS A TERORIST!!
INCLUDING BENAZIR BHUTTO,NAWAZ SHARIF AND EVEN 9 YEAR OLD SCHOOL STUDENTS !!!

This is the biggest challnege that the last days of Bush administration facing.Mr Musharraf has turned down the table of democarcy crusader with a challenege to his own master to do what you are doing around the world.Now it is taime of tast for American and democracy lover to meet the challenge.Are they ready to meet>Let see what happened?

Mr. Musharaf is doing a ggod job. He is fighting the god hating terroists and other cutthroats. Thanks Mr Musharaf

There is one thing that is inevitable in this matter and that is that Pakistan will become an Islamic Republic and that it will do so sooner rather than later. The United States as usual has cast its lot with the wrong side, as in allying itself with Mussharraf it has tied itself to a viscious military dictator, the kind that never lasts. We are irrrevocably bound to a loser and we don't know how to get out or even to mitigate the disaster that is largely of our own doing. We should have pulled our support from Mussharraf back in 2000 when it became obvious what he was and that he could not survive. Bush had the opportunity, but like most of his predecessors he never saw a right wing military dictatorship he didn't like, and so we propped Mussharraf up until there was no possible way for Pakistan to achieve another government other than a civil war which must inevitably won by the Islamic National leaders.

And so in the name of fighting the farcical "War on Terror" and containing the effforts of the few thousand fanatics around the world, who if truth be told pose us no threat, we have generated yet another large powerful state, opposed to us. Bush is not the first President to overlook the atrocities of those who we support because we believe them to be closer to our interests than the other side, but he is the first President whose actions have been so stupid as to create huge states, with whom we could be friends or at least partners, into avowed enemies. Pakistan, 165,000,000; Syria 20,000,000; Iran 75,000,000; Iraq 28,000,000 are all heavily opposed to the United States and most of the rest of the Muslim world is opposed to us because of our attitude toward these states and our general intolerance of the Muslim World. In Pakistan we have a chance to ease a little of the pressure by abandoning Musharraf and allowing the Pakistanis to choose their own next government, by boalot or by bullet, but not by our interference. However we won't do this because, at least our present leader, believes that we have to export "freedom," whatever that is and nobody in the Middle East cares or wants it, and "Democracy" which is even less understood and less wanted than "freedom." Never has a nation so endangered itself as has the United States in pursuing, in the light of all desires to the contrary on the part of the pursuees, the imposition of meaningless words on other peoples.

It is time for the United States citizenry to stand up and demand that our nation come home and tend to its own problems and stop trying to give those problems to people who don't want them. We cannot police the world, we cannot change the world, we cannot remake the world in our image and above all we cannot force others to do our will no matter how hard we try. We have a lot of leanring to do and apparently we are led by the untrainable.

Pakistan is again under worst conditon and no doubt this situation come again on fulfilling the demands of US.Our corrupt and weak leadership are promoted and strengthened by US agencies and huge dollar funds. us recover dollar aid by making defence deals with the govt but that leave an enormous damage to our political and economic structure.At present the situation is like that US is threatening to stop aid to corrupt army mafia, Our coward generals are trying to haunt US governance by taliban activities that is absolutely and no doubt production of army.In this game of power Bhutto is also demanding her share by creating threat of public demonstration to army mafia. In this power pulling activities the most hiting targets are Lawyers,judges and media men and all anger of failed govt is being thrown on them. People of US are kindly requested to refrain their govt of unlawful acts on other countries.They can stop all aid to our mangement but let us live in peace .

I think people should know Pakistan's history before they try to sully the name of Zulfiqar Bhutto...he is a hero for the people of Pakistan and this very reason answers a lot of questions as to why America decided to get rid of him...simply put...he was a threat to the ego of Amercia who think they have the sole 'right' to make a nuclear bomb...we had a traitor in a uniform, Zia, known CIA agent confirmed by their reports who did the dirty job for 'them' and hanged the most popular, most brave and most sincere leader Pakistan had ever seen. He had the courage to tear into pieces a document from the puppetry foundation called the UN because it hurt Pakistan. He gave people voice, freedom and pride. His legacy today carries on by his daughter burdened under corruption charges. But the funny thing is that not a single case against her has been proven...isn't that enough?? the people she was fighting against wanted to divide Pakistan and have Sindh to themselves...we don't want that, do you?..very recently 'they' were declared a terrorist organization by Canada. oh wait maybe 'idlehands' dislikes her simply coz he or she is totally bought out by the US? Anything is possible. Are you getting paid to write against people who are our heroes and call all muslims from Iran to Pakistan terrorists? these very so called Islamic militants were trained by the CIA and the ISI-to fight in the name of Allah against the Soviets....at that time they (freedom fighters now terrorists) were heroes for America and their brainchild, their human bombs carefully brainwashed for their arch enemy.. backfired. It is your chance to not just read but UNDERSTAND the history of a nation which has suffered from vested interests of the West owing to its strategic location and serving as a buffer state to India. We need to be freed from physical and verbal violence. Please stop teaching us our own history. And yeah Amercians are anything but fools.

Musharraf knows what he is doing because in the event that Benazir takes power she is going to wrestle away the authority of controlling Nuclear arms away from the Army and her corrupt officials will sell some pieces to the highest bidder and no one would be able to stop that, As long as the Army is in control the Western Nations should thank their lucky stars because Benazir will start the abandoned project of the Oil pipeline from Iran to China which will severely crash the US economy to bits and pieces, Why do u think that Musharraf attacked his own people in the province of Baluchistan ( same reason) he had to stop the China Iran gateway because that will surely lead to regional destabilization,
Let Musharraf deal with Pakistan and don???t let Bhutto take power because that would be more disastrous because then u will have to fight 3 enemies at once all getting strong thru Bhutto and her democratic ( corrupt ) Pakistan. An economically strong China and 2 nuclear armed terrorists Iran and Al Qaeda.

I guess if everyone is not a peace loving democratic individual, then they are a dangerous, illegitimate ruler??? That sure rules President Bush out. Oh, by the way, how many Americans voted for President Bush? Oh yea, the general American public cannot vote for the President, I almost forgot.

Drastic measures are required in Pakistan and like Turkey in the past, it needs a strong military ruler to ensure that Pakistan stays "Secular" and not a Theological Democracy like Iran. Theology and Democracy should not mix. That combination is the most illegitimate, dangerous, desperate, tyranical, despotic, Hitleristic combination that can be achieved without bringing Hitler back from the dead.

Musharraf is a coup leader.
Musharaff is an illegitimate ruler.
Musharaff is dangerous.
Musharaff is desperate.
Musharraf is a tyrant,despot,military dictator.
One man was the cause of W.W.2.
Hitler was the root cause of millions of deaths.
Rather than killing Hitler the world went to war.
Dont tell me they couldnt have killed Hitler.
Quote "What has history taught us.You can kill anybody"-Godfather ,movie.

The most critical issue facing the world is the control of nukes in Pakistan. There is no way a lone scientist, who himself stole nuclear secrets when he was employed in the Netherlands, could have proliferated nuclear technology to other rogue regimes in the world without the complicity of Pakistan's army and the ISI. Includentally, when all this proliferation occurred, Musharaff was the army's chief of staff. The idea of a lone scientist operating without the knowledge of all the intelligence services of Pakistan being aware of it is laughable, particularly in a country where a bird can't take flight without the amry or intelligence services being aware of it.

The hyper active judges and a few lawyers were carried away in the wave created by scandle-hungry journalists of "too many to feed" media channels encouraged by President Musharraf himself. They took the case of his elegibility too far and delayed it beyond tolerance. He HAS been re-elected but notification was stopped. He sent too many gestures of cooperation to the judiciary but these went in vain.
Now we should let him hold elections. Too hot protest will only delay the return to democracy.
M. BASHIR HERL
Faisalabad Pakistan.
mbh@bhpura.com

Masherif, I hear you and can understand your perspective. I would like to share with you a great article on Singapore's leader - Lee KuanYew - great man. He was a bit of a dictator as well but look where he landed his nation - This may be foolish but I really prefer to be optimsitc "Singapore Leader Outlines Lessons of Leadership" - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/news/2000/lee_kuan_yew.htm

Masherif, I hear you and can understand your perspective. I would like to share with you a great article on Singapore's leader - Lee KuanYew - great man. He was a bit of a dictator as well but look where he landed his nation - This may be foolish but I really prefer to be optimsitc "Singapore Leader Outlines Lessons of Leadership" - http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/news/2000/lee_kuan_yew.htm

Nice balanced article - and this is first time i am impressed by NW that they spoke the truth and told american citizens to look for more friends in PK and changing policy to Pakistan Policy.

Few weeks earlier i was in US and discussed the same with few US friends and they all were unhappy by the action US Govt. is taking. I can only wish that Bush and forth-coming President of US will take right actions which are desprately needed to win the war of Extremism and Terrorism.

Shakeel,
Lahore, PK