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to what extent self proclaimed prodemocratic US is ready to support rotten dictatorship in Pakistan?

Until they see even a faint hope that he'll retain power and cooperate with them? We should know since Pinochet that dictators can not only be "our son-of-a-bitches", but the best hope for democracy...

in Myanmar or Tibet US has no strategic interests

I'd say it does: to strategically weaken China, the same way Russia/the Soviet Union was 'encircled'. I rather think inaction there is a sign of real weakness, a weakness that was meant to be clouded with the war in Iraq, and a weakness many European governments still can't see when following politics of vassaldom.

Would the US even attempt to organise a velvet revolution in Pakistan, I am curious whom you think they'd support as leader. Do you think the US could bet on Sharif?

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 03:07:49 AM EST
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I don't know whom Americans should support, they just have to force Musharraf to hold free elections and allow exiles to return. They apparently did not bother, offering ailing dictator medicines to prolong his term in power.

What they should do is to stop preaching about their global quest for democracy. Facts do not support this tall claim.

by FarEasterner on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 03:23:21 AM EST
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Should and would are two completely different things, and I agree with you about the should part. But you answered the would part with the other comment -- so they are really as desperate as to stick with two political corpses (Musharraf & Bhutto).

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 09:04:08 AM EST
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(I note for clarification that I read 'velvet revolution' as 'coloured revolution', e.g. pseudo-revolution engineered for the world media.)

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.
by DoDo on Tue Sep 11th, 2007 at 09:06:17 AM EST
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