11-07-2007, 02:32 AM
<b>Deposed Pakistan judge urges defiance</b>
<b>Pakistani coup de grâce</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Washington's inability to deter Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf from declaring emergency rule -- a coup d'etat that has been in the works for months -- reveals yet another Bush administration foreign policy failure. As the dictator's goons used clubs and tear gas to crush pro-democracy demonstrations, arrested several thousand lawyers and human rights activists and muzzled the media, President Bush -- the chest-thumping, self-proclaimed defender of freedom and crusader against tyranny everywhere -- bravely declared that he hoped Musharraf would "take my advice" and hold elections soon. It was a grotesque finale to the now-abandoned doctrine that Bush advanced in his second inaugural address, when he argued that tyranny itself is the mother's milk of extremism. <!--emo&
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<b>The Bush administration now sees itself forced to choose between U.S. interests and American principles, between fighting terrorism and preserving stability in a nuclear weapons state, and promoting if not Jeffersonian democracy then at least semi-enlightened governance under civilian, though authoritarian, law</b>
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<b>Pakistani coup de grâce</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Washington's inability to deter Pakistan's Gen. Pervez Musharraf from declaring emergency rule -- a coup d'etat that has been in the works for months -- reveals yet another Bush administration foreign policy failure. As the dictator's goons used clubs and tear gas to crush pro-democracy demonstrations, arrested several thousand lawyers and human rights activists and muzzled the media, President Bush -- the chest-thumping, self-proclaimed defender of freedom and crusader against tyranny everywhere -- bravely declared that he hoped Musharraf would "take my advice" and hold elections soon. It was a grotesque finale to the now-abandoned doctrine that Bush advanced in his second inaugural address, when he argued that tyranny itself is the mother's milk of extremism. <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> <b>The Bush administration now sees itself forced to choose between U.S. interests and American principles, between fighting terrorism and preserving stability in a nuclear weapons state, and promoting if not Jeffersonian democracy then at least semi-enlightened governance under civilian, though authoritarian, law</b>
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