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January 31, 2006
A good ally
Jay Nordlinger is still in Davos, and watches some Western journalists question President Musharraf of Pakistan:
Someone asks, “Why should Pakistan and India be able to have the A-bomb, and Iran not?” Musharraf says that the only good reason to have a nuclear weapon is to deter aggression. “When India went unconventional, we went unconventional” — because “the balance” was upset. “Ours is a threat perception; India's may be a world projection.”So why should the mullahs be deprived of their nukes? “I don't see a threat to Iran.” And as a general matter, “we are against nuclear proliferation.”
. . . . The journalists invite Musharraf to condemn the United States for its recent raid against al Qaeda, on Pakistani soil. They sort of bait him into rebuking his American ally — holy Pakistani sovereignty, and all that.
Musharraf makes clear that Pakistan did not know about the raid in advance. (Therefore, it gave no permission.) He makes clear Pakistan's disapproval of that raid. But he wonders why no one ever mentions the violation of Pakistani sovereignty by al Qaeda and other foreigners. Yes, Pakistan doesn't like the United States operating on its soil. But what about these legions of terrorists? The United States is helping Pakistan get rid of them. The Pakistanis have captured Sudanese, Chechens, Uzbeks, Arabs, and more.
What about them? Don't they count? Huh, huh?
As usual, Musharraf is more pro-Western — and more sensible — than Western journalists.
Judith | 01/31/06 at 03:51 AM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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Cudos to Musharraf!
Paul | January 31, 2006 10:58 PM
Pakistan has traditionally been a western ally...It was only in the '80s that a Fundamentalist movement took roots...
American image in the Pakistani street has been helped a lot by the help of the Americans after the earth quake..
Maestro | January 31, 2006 11:32 PM
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