Okay, so diplomacy seems to be improving the situation in North Korea, and threatening Iran with World War III is going swimmingly, but the real scare is in Pakistan. The military dictator Pervez Musharraf has declared martial law, shut down all non-state controlled media and has the police and military beating or jailing anybody they feel poses a threat. There’s an assassination attempt du jour, and one of those bullets could get lucky. Then all hell breaks loose.
Wait a minute. I thought President Bush wanted to bring democracy to the Middle East. Why are we supporting Musharraf? Before 9/11, he was a pal of the Taliban next door. After 9/11, he switched sides and became a US ally, gaining billions in our tax dollars. The country is overwhelmingly Muslim, and a truly fair, free election would have some pretty hardcore people in power. With a modern air force. That we gave them. And a nuclear arsenal. Now. And a bad taste in their mouth about US support for their oppressor.
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But Jeff, it's OK that president Musharraf is doing these things, because he invoked the name of the god of the neo-conservative movement, Abraham Lincoln. You see, it's OK to suspend habeous corpus, throw people in jail without due process, eliminate freedom of speech and press, and order the destruction and death of your own countrymen, because our great Emancipator, Father Abraham, did those things.
I now know where to go on the internet to feel relaxed and wonderfully content with the world.
Thanks Jeff....
No really, this blog is great. I am on a news fast....so this is perfect, cause its not really "news", its just you ranting...!
Ben, the worst thing ole Abe did for my money was insisting on getting the South back. If the Confederacy had remained, I believe Mexico would only be the second poorest country on the continent.
You know, it's interesting that before the Civil War, the South was actually the economic power in this country. The North only survived by enacting huge tariffs on Southern goods. Reconstruction pretty much killed the South, as the Northern armies destroyed almost the entire economy, and the South still hasn't fully recovered.
Ben, once again I find you in the teeniest, tiniest minority of people to subscribe to this theory of Southern industrialization.
Tres bizarre.
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