Dancing with the Dictator

God bless Mr. Bush and down with enemies of USA. God bless our arm forces. To hell with terrorists, liberals and all other god hating, america hating wimps. Go USA.

God bless the USA

Why blame Bush? Since he himself is a total loser he has always allied our nation with losers. We should allow the Middle East to become the Islamic States ruled by religious leaders that they are going to become anyway. Instead we do all in our power to thrust our form of Democracy on the people of that region who have no need of it, don't see it as a blessing and don't want it. Contrary to popular belief the only people who believe the world is jealous of the American life style are the American people. What we should be doing is getting our uniformed assassins home from that area and letting those states work out their destiny as they see fit.

There is no doubt that a threatening power will arise from that working out, but it will be a power that can be dealt with just as we never let the cold war become hot. The United States has to learn that imposing its own version of a social system or imposing its own particular brand of religious fantasy on another has not worked since the last of the missionaries was eaten. A hundred years ago the world was ready to accept civil and religious colonialism, but nations have now thrown that off and the US's attempts to reimpose it in the name of "freedom" are doomed to failure. And the failure has cost us dearly, in money, lives, honor, ethics and dignity.

The tiem has come to bring our armies home and stand down our military expenditure and military threat in favor of improving the lives of our own people. The Soviet Union is gone, China is pursuing a different competative road than military confrontation, terrorism is and always has been a non-threat, a weak Boogie Man created by incompetent and failed leaders and, while the Middle East will incarnate as an Islamic Empire that is decades away, and there is time to accomodate ourselves to that. But it will take an understanding of how the world has changed from the 19th and 20th Centuries and how the United States has a different role to play in the future, perhaps a far less important one. We need far thinking and far reaching leadership, not the same old macho, fear ridden, military hobbled, ignorant and insular leadership we have now and which we are offered for the future. Though the Democrats may offer us a start on an understanding of the world they are still hidebound by the past and the Republicans are little more than a stage full of empty suited neanderthals uttering only one word (taxes) and threatening everyone and everything they come in contact with. Still, there's time.

Beginning with Truman and up to Reagan we supported Dictatorships(however distasteful) to contain communism. Now, it seems, we will support anyone who opposes Terrorism.

Musharaff obviously has limited intelegence on how to deal with his country's internal problems. Marshall law is usually the last resort for a civilian government but it is the prefered type of rule for the military. Mass arrests,imprisonment without trial or charges, disappearences and torture, violent crackdown on protests or dissent and takeover of the media and courts are all hallmarks of dictatorship.Musharaff's opposition will be arrested and detained the body count is going to grow fast. The ultimate effect of this action almost allways is overthrough. The United States must monitor the situation very closely because if it appears Pakistan's nuclear weapons are in danger of falling into unfriendly hands they must seriously consider a first strike to remove the threat of a missle attack by extremists on the U.S. or thier allies in the region.

As a latinamerican I would just disagree on the "Americans have always been uneasy about dancing with dictators" or just I start numbering the ones americans support through the eigthies in the region. ??And what about Chavez, will the americans stop complaining about his luck of democratic's ways or will they use the same standars as with Musharraf, Kadafi, etc.? May be Mugabe can also have something to say about the dictatorship to defend the people and the democracy

As a latinamerican I would just disagree on the "Americans have always been uneasy about dancing with dictators" or just I start numbering the ones americans support through the eigthies in the region. ??And what about Chavez, will the americans stop complaining about his luck of democratic's ways or will they use the same standars as with Musharraf, Kadafi, etc.? May be Mugabe can also have something to say about the dictatorship to defend the people and the democracy

Will the CIA assasinate Musharraf ?
Please dont .
Musharaf must be tried in an InternationalCourt of Justice.

Although I don't have a whole lot of confidence in the radical elements if they took over Packistan but I would still trust them more than Mucharraf. Afterall it was one of his nuclear weapons scientists whosold every nuclear secret he could get his hands on and he sold them mostly to our enemies. So it'll be a tough call but Musharraf has already proven hes more than capable of de-stabilizing the world.

Pakistan under Musharraf's regime has delivered more than 700+ terrorists to US custody, not counting the hundreds if not thousands killed. Columnists like these should keep that in mind while they "critique" the "dictator".

WHERE THE HELL IS MY COMMENT, I DON'T SEE IT DISPLAYED

The media needs to stop focusing on Pakistan and focus on what America id doing for its own people, like creating jobs, having a stable economy and stop sending your kids to war cause of nationality. Where is the justice in standing up for America when the rich party while the working class work their asses of to provide for their families.

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Problem dictatorship ??? Or supporting dictatorship?
The biggest drama from my point of view is how we define the foreign policy? We are all proud about to say, foreign policy is the policy of interests! You all hear such definitions not only in political debates but we learn this very stupid things also in our so called elite universities and we hear it also often from so called intellectual prophets. And we repeat and repeat it fluently.
As long as we don???t ask ourselves what does this mean we don???t have to wonder about supporting dictatorships. We don???t have to wonder about damaging our own democracy and our freedom. It???s very simple; such way leads to deep corruption on thinking and on dealing, whatever we are going to do. Because when something matches our interests so it doesn???t matter if the solution will be the dictatorship. And for sure it doesn???t matter dancing with the Dictators and it doesn???t matter if we are not recognizing free elections or threatening democratic rights.
See US support for governments in Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and many other countries in the world. See also the support of Israeli occupation and its humiliation against the very basic human rights. And more see the US support for Bin-Laden against the bloody Russian occupation of Afghanistan.