Thursday, December 27, 2007
Fox News, These Are Your Children...
I have now received three student papers that discuss Iraq's attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11...
Meanwhile, the tragic and brutal assassination of Benazir Bhutto does mean that her supporters don't need to worry about her apparent cosying up with Pervez Musharraf (trying to ingratiate herself with someone she saw as remaining the main power in Pakistani politics, or ingratiating herself in order to persuade him to step aside?) and forget about all the corruption that happened last time she was in power.
Meanwhile, the tragic and brutal assassination of Benazir Bhutto does mean that her supporters don't need to worry about her apparent cosying up with Pervez Musharraf (trying to ingratiate herself with someone she saw as remaining the main power in Pakistani politics, or ingratiating herself in order to persuade him to step aside?) and forget about all the corruption that happened last time she was in power.
Labels: 11/09/01, Fox, Iraq, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, The War Against Terror
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
This is What Democracy Looks Like... Apparently
Bush More Emphatic In Backing Musharraf. He Says Leader 'Believes in Democracy'.
Well, Bush and Musharraf have things in common, they've both stolen elections for example, but only Musharraf has been in the military.
I do love the way the Post reports it though.
President Bush yesterday offered his strongest support of embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying the general "hasn't crossed the line" and "truly is somebody who believes in democracy." Bush spoke nearly three weeks after Musharraf declared emergency rule, sacked members of the Supreme Court and began a roundup of journalists, lawyers and human rights activists.
Well, Bush and Musharraf have things in common, they've both stolen elections for example, but only Musharraf has been in the military.
I do love the way the Post reports it though.
President Bush yesterday offered his strongest support of embattled Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, saying the general "hasn't crossed the line" and "truly is somebody who believes in democracy." Bush spoke nearly three weeks after Musharraf declared emergency rule, sacked members of the Supreme Court and began a roundup of journalists, lawyers and human rights activists.
Labels: George 'Shrubya' Bush, Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, United States
Monday, November 19, 2007
From the geniuses that brought you: "Hey, let's arm these Taliban guys to fight the Commies for us!" comes the sequel: "Hey, let's arm these Pakistani tribes to fight the Taliban for us!"
Labels: Pakistan, The War Against Terror, United States
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Tariq Ali on the state of Pakistan as it turns sixty.
Several years after the split with Bangladesh in 1971 I wrote a book called Can Pakistan Survive? for Penguin. It was publicly denounced and banned by the dictator of the day, General Zia-ul-Haq, but pirated in many editions. I had argued that if the state carried on in the same old way, some of the minority provinces left behind might also defect, leaving the Punjab alone, strutting like a cock on a dunghill. Many of those who denounced me as a traitor and a renegade are now asking the same question. It’s too late for regrets, I tell them. The country is here to stay. And it’s not religion or the mystical ‘ideology of Pakistan’ that guarantees its survival, but its nuclear capacity and Washington.
[via Blogadoon]
Several years after the split with Bangladesh in 1971 I wrote a book called Can Pakistan Survive? for Penguin. It was publicly denounced and banned by the dictator of the day, General Zia-ul-Haq, but pirated in many editions. I had argued that if the state carried on in the same old way, some of the minority provinces left behind might also defect, leaving the Punjab alone, strutting like a cock on a dunghill. Many of those who denounced me as a traitor and a renegade are now asking the same question. It’s too late for regrets, I tell them. The country is here to stay. And it’s not religion or the mystical ‘ideology of Pakistan’ that guarantees its survival, but its nuclear capacity and Washington.
[via Blogadoon]
Labels: Fundamentalists- Islamic, Pakistan, The War Against Terror, United States
