Pakistan
Lately I have been keeping up with global and current events. As you may know President Musharraf has declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. He has suspended the constitution, forced media to close down, arrested many top officials, protestors, and lawyers, and pushed back Presidential Elections. Anyone who chooses to argue with his decision is arrested; anyone that pushes for him to step down is arrested. There is no system of check and balance in place right now. If you have even read a quick one paragraph column on what’s going on in Pakistan your probably thinking Musharraf is consuming too much power and is doing a great injustice, and your probably right.
I, for one, am outraged on what is going on and more importantly I am upset and confused as to why the US is doing very little. What it sounds like is Musharraf is on his way to be another Saddam Hussein. I understand that when President Bush wanted to go to war in Iraq he made a little speech that went something like this “This nation, in world war and in Cold War, has never permitted the brutal and lawless to set history's course. Now, as before, we will secure our nation, protect our freedom, and help others to find freedom of their own.” I see a little bit of inconsistency here. Pakistan is a real country that is being taken over by a President that is the army chief as well. This is a president who seized power in 1999, who declared a state of emergency a few days before the Supreme Court was to rule on the legitimacy of his presidency, and a man who refuses to abdicate any power at all. We fight a war for people who are not our own, and we sit back while our “ally’s” use tyranny to suppress others. That must be terrorism right there, an attack on freedom by Musharraf. This is idiotic…what do you guys think?
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I was wondering what you thought about what is going on in Pakistan right now. I think the problem is that Musharraf has the power and that power includes nuclear weapons. He has claimed to be an ally of the U.S., and Bush thinks that having him as an ally is more important than the freedom of citizens in his country. So the US supports dictators who could help our foreign policy and overthrows dictators whom we do not see as advantageous to our foreign and economic policy. I don't think it has much to do with democracy in Pakistan or Iraq--just what will serve our interests.
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