Pakistan's Musharraf resigns, avoids impeachment

[freesw]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/18/pakistan

[mnottfam]

"...Down with the American stooge..." Can you say, "uh oh!" Saw the article elsewhere, too. Not a good sign. In a VERY muslim country, he was an ally (supposedly), and now, who knows what kind of help we're going to get over there, ALTHOUGH, those Afgans have been running back and forth across that border, with the Pakistanis seemingly just always missing them...hmm.

[freesw]

Musharraf stepping down now is not the problem it would have been a few years ago. He does leave a more stable situation and a political environment not particularly hostile to us.

[billdeserthills]

I think the US would have been money ahead if we had just given Isreal 1/2 the money spent on the Iraq, Iran, Afganistan project. I'm sure Isreal would have done a good job for 1/2 the price and we wouldn't have the death toll and the as yet unfinished trouble still seen over there.

[freesw]

It's 2000 miles from Tel Aviv to Karachi.

That's a lot of territory for a little country with a small population to pacify/patrol/monitor, and not one bit of it friendly territory to them.

[moonie42]

Great, just what the world needs now: a nuclear-capable country facing a change of leadership, in a highly-contentious part of the world. That coupled with the Russian/Georgian conflict, Russia's threat to nuke Poland if a US missile defense system is constructed, and Russia's overall antagonistic, expansionist posture and I'd say we're headed towards some world-altering conflict here. Be intersting to see how the conflict manifests itself...political, social, martial. Scary...very scary.