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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has his back against the proverbial wall with diminishing room for maneuver. He is confronted by Al Qaida-inspired Islamo-facists who have been hatched in home-grown hovels of hate that seek to impose Sharia and eradicate all aspects of the Western notion of the ‘rule of law’. The radicals have thrice failed in assassination attempts and will eventually succeed unless crushed, yet they grow stronger rapidly in the cauldron of an exploding underclass that is kept under control only through the most intense and unwavering military & state police tactics. All the while, General Musharraf is pressured by a rising and restless middle class intent on realizing long-promised Democratic and economic reforms that now seem farther away than in many years. If there is a common thread that unites all Paks, it is discontent. Pakistan is the second largest Muslim nation on the planet with over 140,000,000 inhabitants. It has a secular-military tradition that is now threatened by the Islamists. It is the only Muslim nation with nuclear weapons (though soon to be joined by Iran) and the only Muslim nation with leadership openly-supportive of America in these early years of World War IV. This is not a nation that America can afford to scorn. This is not a leader that American can afford to lose. Congressional Democrats sit in dens of luxury in Washington, D.C., protected by the phalanx of American power arrayed about the globe and engaged in the bloody work at Freedom’s frontline, much of which now happens to be in the President-General’s backyard, and carp about Musharraf’s recent clampdown on agents provocateur who seek to foment an insurrection that will lead to the installation of the recently-returned Benazir Bhutto, daughter of the former communistic Prime Minister Ali Bhutto, who was imprisoned and hanged in 1979 after a military coup, and herself a corrupt (but pardoned by Musharraf) former Prime Minister of this tumultuous country that is strategically perched in the heart of southern Asia, bordering Afghanistan, India, China, and Iran. Yes, Iran, the next front in the war against Islamofacism. The Democrats want us to cut-off Musharraf’s legs to punish him for fighting back against these internal enemies, but mostly because the ACLU frets over the routing of non-governmental organizations that insidiously infiltrated and collaborated with Pakistani counterparts in urging members of an agenda-driven Pakistani Supreme Court to engineer a legalistic putsch. Amidst this civil turbulence, the Madrassahs have contributed freshly-brainwashed youths for suicide bombing missions, killing scores of Pakistani citizens. Is this the time for our Secretary of State to openly whine about Pakistan deviating from the road to Democracy, or for President Bush to lecture Musharraf and order him to, ‘take off the General’s uniform?,’ while our own Commander-in-Chief has the same power, but dresses in Armani (or maybe it’s J.C. Penney)? Let’s hope this is for show and is just legacy-speak, that drivel so nauseatingly endured in the closing chapters of the empty Clinton years. Let’s hope this is not the real policy of America. Let’s hope that the Vice-President was speaking for America when he called Musharraf and told him, ‘Pervez, George is going to call you. You can totally ignore what he is going to say because it’s just for our own media consumption, as you know. We will give you anything you need to kick ass, as we might say over here. Guns, helicopters, Humvees, and, if necessary, some Special Forces. As we say out in Wyoming, “Watch your top knot, Cowboy.” We need you.’
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